Interstitial pneumonia in a glassblower: think to chronic beryllium disease!

Chronic beryllium disease (CBD) is an occupational illness with varying severity. In this report, we describe a 27 year old man, glassblower, who developed a fatal CBD after six months of unknown Beryllium's exposure. The diagnosis was suspected on histological examination and then consolidated...

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Autores principales: Jamoussi, Amira, Merhabene, Takoua, Mlika, Mona, Neji, Henda, El Mezni, Faouzi, Khelil, Jalila Ben, Besbes, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6462151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31011396
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.31.95.14831
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author Jamoussi, Amira
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Khelil, Jalila Ben
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description Chronic beryllium disease (CBD) is an occupational illness with varying severity. In this report, we describe a 27 year old man, glassblower, who developed a fatal CBD after six months of unknown Beryllium's exposure. The diagnosis was suspected on histological examination and then consolidated by confirmation of Beryllium's exposure at the working area. Physicians should be aware of the potential risk to develop CBD in glassblowers. These workers should benefit from early medical surveillance using the Beryllium lymphocyte proliferation test (BeLPT) and therefore from suitable management.
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spelling pubmed-64621512019-04-22 Interstitial pneumonia in a glassblower: think to chronic beryllium disease! Jamoussi, Amira Merhabene, Takoua Mlika, Mona Neji, Henda El Mezni, Faouzi Khelil, Jalila Ben Besbes, Mohamed Pan Afr Med J Case Report Chronic beryllium disease (CBD) is an occupational illness with varying severity. In this report, we describe a 27 year old man, glassblower, who developed a fatal CBD after six months of unknown Beryllium's exposure. The diagnosis was suspected on histological examination and then consolidated by confirmation of Beryllium's exposure at the working area. Physicians should be aware of the potential risk to develop CBD in glassblowers. These workers should benefit from early medical surveillance using the Beryllium lymphocyte proliferation test (BeLPT) and therefore from suitable management. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6462151/ /pubmed/31011396 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.31.95.14831 Text en © Amira Jamoussi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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