A Clinical Guide to Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases

Yuh-Chin T. Huang, MD, MHS Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA Andrew J. Ghio, MD Human Studies Facility, Environmental Public Health Division, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Lisa A. Maier, MD, MSPH, FCCP Department of Medicine, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA

Historical Perspective of Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease.- The Occupational and Environmental History.- Use of Laboratory Tests in Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases.- Radiography and CT of Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases.- Environmental and Occupational Causes of Asthma.- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis.- Air Pollution and Lung Diseases.- Unanswered questions regarding asbestos exposure – concerns for the next generation.- Pneumoconiosis in the 21st century.- Inhalation Injury.- Hard Metal Lung Disease.- Beryllium Disease.- Occupational Lung Cancer.- COPD in non-smokers.- Emerging Issues in Environmental and Occupational Lung Diseases.- Disability Assessment in Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases.- Global Impact of Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases.