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[Clinical and functional tests for pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale in chronic pulmonary berylliosis and plutonium-induced pulmonary sclerosis].
- Source :
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Meditsina truda i promyshlennaia ekologiia [Med Tr Prom Ekol] 2004 (3), pp. 20-5. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Berylliosis and plutonium pneumosclerosis patients appeared to have two types of pulmonary hypertension: hypervolemic and hypertonic ones. Hypervolemic type of pulmonary circulation was revealed in 31.7% of berylliosis patients and in 53.8% of plutonium pneumosclerosis patients. Hypertonic type of pulmonary circulation was seen in 68.3% of berylliosis patients and in 46.2% of plutonium pneumosclerosis patients mainly at stages II and III. Berylliosis and plutonium pneumosclerosis patients are subjects for early pulmonary hypertension--moderate in most patients at stage I and high at stage II and III. Pulmonary hypertension is a main pathogenetic factor underlying chronic corpulmonale formation.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Chronic Disease
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary epidemiology
Male
Middle Aged
Occupational Diseases epidemiology
Pulmonary Heart Disease epidemiology
Sclerosis diagnosis
Sclerosis epidemiology
Sclerosis etiology
Severity of Illness Index
Berylliosis epidemiology
Disability Evaluation
Hypertension, Pulmonary diagnosis
Hypertension, Pulmonary etiology
Lung pathology
Occupational Diseases diagnosis
Plutonium adverse effects
Pulmonary Heart Disease complications
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- Russian
- ISSN :
- 1026-9428
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Meditsina truda i promyshlennaia ekologiia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 15124391