Occupational Asthma Caused by Nickel and Zinc

A 28-year-old man developed asthma 10 years after working in a metal-plating factory. Recordings of peak expiratory flow rates showed increased variations after exposure at work. Allergy prick skin tests elicited an immediate reaction with nickel sulfate at a concentration of 1 and 10 mg/ml, and wit...

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Autores principales: Hong, Chein Soo, Oh, Seung Heon, Lee, Hyun Chul, Huh, Kap Bum, Lee, Sang Yong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Internal Medicine 1986
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4536724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3154623
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.1986.1.2.259
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author Hong, Chein Soo
Oh, Seung Heon
Lee, Hyun Chul
Huh, Kap Bum
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description A 28-year-old man developed asthma 10 years after working in a metal-plating factory. Recordings of peak expiratory flow rates showed increased variations after exposure at work. Allergy prick skin tests elicited an immediate reaction with nickel sulfate at a concentration of 1 and 10 mg/ml, and with zinc sulfate at a concentration of 10 mg/ml. Inhalation challenges with nickel sulfate and zinc sulfate produced bronchial obstructions. Thus, we concluded that this was a case of asthma caused by nickel sulfate and zinc sulfate.
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spelling pubmed-45367242015-10-02 Occupational Asthma Caused by Nickel and Zinc Hong, Chein Soo Oh, Seung Heon Lee, Hyun Chul Huh, Kap Bum Lee, Sang Yong Korean J Intern Med Case Report A 28-year-old man developed asthma 10 years after working in a metal-plating factory. Recordings of peak expiratory flow rates showed increased variations after exposure at work. Allergy prick skin tests elicited an immediate reaction with nickel sulfate at a concentration of 1 and 10 mg/ml, and with zinc sulfate at a concentration of 10 mg/ml. Inhalation challenges with nickel sulfate and zinc sulfate produced bronchial obstructions. Thus, we concluded that this was a case of asthma caused by nickel sulfate and zinc sulfate. Korean Association of Internal Medicine 1986-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4536724/ /pubmed/3154623 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.1986.1.2.259 Text en Copyright © 1986 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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