Asbestosis

Asbestosis is a chronic inflammatory and fibrotic medical condition affecting the parenchymal tissue of the lungs caused by the inhalation and retention of asbestos fibers. It often happens after excessive intensity and/or lengthy-time period publicity to asbestos (notably in those people engaged on the manufacturing or finish-use of products containing asbestos) and is due to this fact thought to be an occupational lung disease. Folks with intensive occupational publicity to the mining, manufacturing, handling or removal of asbestos are liable to creating asbestosis.[1] Sufferers might expertise extreme dyspnea (shortness of breath) and are at an increased risk for certain malignancies, together with lung most cancers and mesothelioma.[2] Asbestosis particularly refers to interstitial (parenchymal) fibrosis from asbestos, and never pleural fibrosis or plaquing.