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Causes of Asbestosis
Causes of Asbestosis (Diseases Database):
The follow list shows some of the possible medical causes of Asbestosis that are listed by the Diseases Database:
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What causes Asbestosis?
Causes: Asbestosis:
Asbestos dust exposure over a period of years.
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Asbestosis:
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(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Asbestosis results from the inhalation of respirable asbestos fibers (50 microns or more in length and 0.5 microns or less in diameter), which assume a longitudinal orientation in the airway and move in the direction of airflow. The fibers penetrate respiratory bronchioles and alveolar walls. Sources include the mining and milling of asbestos, the construction industry, and the fireproofing and textile industries. Asbestos was also used in the production of paints, plastics, and brake and clutch linings.
Asbestos-related diseases develop in families of asbestos workers as a result of exposure to fibrous dust shaken off workers’clothing at home. Such diseases develop in the general public as a result of exposure to fibrous dust or waste piles from nearby asbestos plants, but exposures for occupants of typical buildings are quite low and not in a range associated with asbestosis.
Inhaled fibers become encased in a brown, proteinlike sheath rich in iron (ferruginous bodies or asbestos bodies), found in sputum and lung tissue. Interstitial fibrosis develops in lower lung zones, causing obliterative changes in lung parenchyma and pleurae. Raised hyaline plaques may form in parietal pleura, diaphragm, and pleura contiguous with the pericardium.
Asbestosis occurs in 4 of every 10,000 people.
Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
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