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diagnosis is based upon patients history of exposure followed by chest xray for characteristic spots on it
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What prognosis exists for people diagnosed with black lung disease?
Those miners with simple CWP can lead a normal life. However, patients who develop black lung disease at an early age, or who have progressive massive fibrosis, have a higher risk of premature death.
What is Black lung disease associated with the production of?
Coal miners are associated with black lung disease.
How people are diagnosed with lung disease each year?
219,440 new cases in 2010.
It is a disease common to coal miners?
Black lung disease: A chronic occupational lung disease contracted by the prolonged breathing of coal mine dust. The silica and carbon in the coal dust cause black lung disease. About one of every 20 miners studied in the US has X-ray evidence of black lung disease, a form of pneumoconiosis.
Known as black lung disease?
Black Lungs..silly.
A 45 letter word for Black Lung Disease?
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis it's lung disease caused by volcanic ash.
What is Pneumoconiosis?
Pneumoconiosis is an occupational lung disease caused by the inhalation of dust. Such as Black Lung.
When one has been diagnosed with Lung Disease, is there diffent stages and treatment to heal the disease?
Yes, there are different stages of Lung Disease. Depending on how far along you are treatments vary. There are many different types of lung diseases such as asthma, Asbestosis, Pneumocystosis and others. Seek a professional on advice for the specific disease.
Who discovered Black Lung Disease?
Black lung disease was first reported back in 1822. Doctors were under the impression that the the symptoms from black lung disease were asthma related. and called it miners asthma. However when In 1831, Upon discovering the blackening of miners lungs the term black lung disease was created. this term was replaced once again more then a hundred years later in 1942 to "pneumoconiosis" by British medical professionals working on understanding the dust diseases that affected coal miners. Black lung disease can be the result of inhaling coal dust. Modern medical terminology for this disease is "pneumoconiosis",
What are some symptoms of black lung disease?
Black lung disease frequently does not show any symptoms. When it does, the common ones are shortness of breath, severe cough, and difficulty breathing.
What medical illnesses do coal miners get?
Black lung disease.
Should you go to the hospital if you have black lung disease?
I would.
