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Mixed mineral dust pneumoconiosis

MedGen UID:
137937
•Concept ID:
C0340184
•
Disease or Syndrome
Synonyms: mineral dust pneumoconiosis; Mixed dust fibrosis; Mixed Mineral Dust Pneumoconiosis; mixed mineral dust pneumoconiosis; pneumoconiosis from mineral dust
SNOMED CT: Mixed mineral dust pneumoconiosis (233759002); Mixed dust fibrosis (233759002)
 
Monarch Initiative: MONDO:0001000

Definition

Pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of mixed mineral dust particles. [from NCI]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVMixed mineral dust pneumoconiosis

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Pathology of asbestosis- An update of the diagnostic criteria: Report of the asbestosis committee of the college of american pathologists and pulmonary pathology society.
Roggli VL, Gibbs AR, Attanoos R, Churg A, Popper H, Cagle P, Corrin B, Franks TJ, Galateau-Salle F, Galvin J, Hasleton PS, Henderson DW, Honma K
Arch Pathol Lab Med 2010 Mar;134(3):462-80. doi: 10.5858/134.3.462. PMID: 20196674
Exposures to silica mixed dust and cohort mortality study in tin mines: exposure-response analysis and risk assessment of lung cancer.
Chen W, Yang J, Chen J, Bruch J
Am J Ind Med 2006 Feb;49(2):67-76. doi: 10.1002/ajim.20248. PMID: 16362950
Proposed criteria for mixed-dust pneumoconiosis: definition, descriptions, and guidelines for pathologic diagnosis and clinical correlation.
Honma K, Abraham JL, Chiyotani K, De Vuyst P, Dumortier P, Gibbs AR, Green FH, Hosoda Y, Iwai K, Williams WJ, Kohyama N, Ostiguy G, Roggli VL, Shida H, Taguchi O, Vallyathan V
Hum Pathol 2004 Dec;35(12):1515-23. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2004.09.008. PMID: 15619211

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Pathologic Findings in Severe Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis in Contemporary US Coal Miners.
Cool CD, Murray J, Vorajee NI, Rose CS, Zell-Baran LM, Sanyal S, Franko AD, Almberg KS, Iwaniuk C, Go LHT, Green FHY, Cohen RA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 2024 Jul 1;148(7):805-817. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2022-0491-OA. PMID: 37852172
Mineral dust exposure in young Indian adults: an effect on lung growth?
Green DA, McAlpine G, Semple S, Cowie H, Seaton A
Occup Environ Med 2008 May;65(5):306-10. Epub 2007 May 23 doi: 10.1136/oem.2007.032797. PMID: 17522138
From quartz hazard to quartz risk: the coal mines revisited.
Borm PJ, Tran L
Ann Occup Hyg 2002 Jan;46(1):25-32. doi: 10.1093/annhyg/mef021. PMID: 12005128
Airflow obstruction in nonsmoking, asbestos- and mixed dust-exposed workers.
Griffith DE, Garcia JG, Dodson RF, Levin JL, Kronenberg RS
Lung 1993;171(4):213-24. doi: 10.1007/BF00203721. PMID: 8341088
Quartz and pneumoconiosis in coalminers.
Seaton A, Dick JA, Dodgson J, Jacobsen M
Lancet 1981 Dec 5;2(8258):1272-5. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(81)91503-8. PMID: 6118680

Diagnosis

Mixed-dust pneumoconiosis in a dental technician: a multidisciplinary diagnosis case report.
Di Lorenzo L, Inchingolo F, Pipoli A, Cassano F, Maggiore ME, Inchingolo AM, Ceci S, Patano A, Malcangi G, Mancini A, Longo G, Attimonelli R, Maiorano E, Laviano R, Manghisi NM, Scarano A, Lorusso F, Di Lorenzo A, Inchingolo AD, Dipalma G
BMC Pulm Med 2022 Apr 27;22(1):161. doi: 10.1186/s12890-022-01948-6. PMID: 35477357Free PMC Article
Proposed criteria for mixed-dust pneumoconiosis: definition, descriptions, and guidelines for pathologic diagnosis and clinical correlation.
Honma K, Abraham JL, Chiyotani K, De Vuyst P, Dumortier P, Gibbs AR, Green FH, Hosoda Y, Iwai K, Williams WJ, Kohyama N, Ostiguy G, Roggli VL, Shida H, Taguchi O, Vallyathan V
Hum Pathol 2004 Dec;35(12):1515-23. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2004.09.008. PMID: 15619211
A possible case of pneumoconiosis in a limestone quarry worker.
Crummy F, Carl I, Cameron CH, Heaney LG
Occup Med (Lond) 2004 Oct;54(7):497-9. doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqh107. PMID: 15486183
An unusual case of mixed-dust exposure involving a "noncommercial" asbestos.
Dodson RF, Levin JL
Environ Health Perspect 2001 Feb;109(2):199-203. doi: 10.1289/ehp.01109199. PMID: 11266334Free PMC Article
Localised obliterative bronchitis due to non-occupational mineral dust inhalation.
Meysman M, Monsieur I, Noppen M, Vincken W
Acta Clin Belg 2000 Nov-Dec;55(6):341-3. doi: 10.1080/17843286.2000.11772035. PMID: 11484425

Therapy

Historical shift in pathological type of progressive massive fibrosis among coal miners in the USA.
Go LHT, Rose CS, Zell-Baran LM, Almberg KS, Iwaniuk C, Clingerman S, Richardson DL, Abraham JL, Cool CD, Franko AD, Green FHY, Hubbs AF, Murray J, Orandle MS, Sanyal S, Vorajee NI, Sarver EA, Petsonk EL, Cohen RA
Occup Environ Med 2023 Aug;80(8):425-430. Epub 2023 Jun 9 doi: 10.1136/oemed-2022-108643. PMID: 37295943Free PMC Article
Mixed-dust pneumoconiosis in a dental technician: a multidisciplinary diagnosis case report.
Di Lorenzo L, Inchingolo F, Pipoli A, Cassano F, Maggiore ME, Inchingolo AM, Ceci S, Patano A, Malcangi G, Mancini A, Longo G, Attimonelli R, Maiorano E, Laviano R, Manghisi NM, Scarano A, Lorusso F, Di Lorenzo A, Inchingolo AD, Dipalma G
BMC Pulm Med 2022 Apr 27;22(1):161. doi: 10.1186/s12890-022-01948-6. PMID: 35477357Free PMC Article
Proposed criteria for mixed-dust pneumoconiosis: definition, descriptions, and guidelines for pathologic diagnosis and clinical correlation.
Honma K, Abraham JL, Chiyotani K, De Vuyst P, Dumortier P, Gibbs AR, Green FH, Hosoda Y, Iwai K, Williams WJ, Kohyama N, Ostiguy G, Roggli VL, Shida H, Taguchi O, Vallyathan V
Hum Pathol 2004 Dec;35(12):1515-23. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2004.09.008. PMID: 15619211
A possible case of pneumoconiosis in a limestone quarry worker.
Crummy F, Carl I, Cameron CH, Heaney LG
Occup Med (Lond) 2004 Oct;54(7):497-9. doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqh107. PMID: 15486183
An unusual case of mixed-dust exposure involving a "noncommercial" asbestos.
Dodson RF, Levin JL
Environ Health Perspect 2001 Feb;109(2):199-203. doi: 10.1289/ehp.01109199. PMID: 11266334Free PMC Article

Prognosis

Mixed methods study on latent tuberculosis among agate stone workers and advocacy for testing silica dust exposed individuals in India.
Rupani MP, Balachandar R, Kharkwal G, Kulkarni NP, Modi BV, Asodia RN, Vaghela KK, Nimavat DR
Sci Rep 2024 Jun 15;14(1):13830. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-64837-4. PMID: 38879714Free PMC Article
Cohort mortality study in three ceramic factories in Jingdezhen in China.
Zhang X, Wang H, Zhu X, Liu Y, Wang L, Dai Q, Cai N, Wu T, Chen W
J Huazhong Univ Sci Technolog Med Sci 2008 Aug;28(4):386-90. Epub 2008 Aug 15 doi: 10.1007/s11596-008-0404-2. PMID: 18704297
Mineral dust exposure in young Indian adults: an effect on lung growth?
Green DA, McAlpine G, Semple S, Cowie H, Seaton A
Occup Environ Med 2008 May;65(5):306-10. Epub 2007 May 23 doi: 10.1136/oem.2007.032797. PMID: 17522138
Exposures to silica mixed dust and cohort mortality study in tin mines: exposure-response analysis and risk assessment of lung cancer.
Chen W, Yang J, Chen J, Bruch J
Am J Ind Med 2006 Feb;49(2):67-76. doi: 10.1002/ajim.20248. PMID: 16362950
Quartz and pneumoconiosis in coalminers.
Seaton A, Dick JA, Dodgson J, Jacobsen M
Lancet 1981 Dec 5;2(8258):1272-5. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(81)91503-8. PMID: 6118680

Clinical prediction guides

Pathologic Findings in Severe Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis in Contemporary US Coal Miners.
Cool CD, Murray J, Vorajee NI, Rose CS, Zell-Baran LM, Sanyal S, Franko AD, Almberg KS, Iwaniuk C, Go LHT, Green FHY, Cohen RA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 2024 Jul 1;148(7):805-817. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2022-0491-OA. PMID: 37852172
Exposures to silica mixed dust and cohort mortality study in tin mines: exposure-response analysis and risk assessment of lung cancer.
Chen W, Yang J, Chen J, Bruch J
Am J Ind Med 2006 Feb;49(2):67-76. doi: 10.1002/ajim.20248. PMID: 16362950
From quartz hazard to quartz risk: the coal mines revisited.
Borm PJ, Tran L
Ann Occup Hyg 2002 Jan;46(1):25-32. doi: 10.1093/annhyg/mef021. PMID: 12005128
Exposures and health effects from inorganic agricultural dusts.
Schenker M
Environ Health Perspect 2000 Aug;108 Suppl 4(Suppl 4):661-4. doi: 10.1289/ehp.00108s4661. PMID: 10931784Free PMC Article
Mixed dust fibrosis and tuberculosis in comparison with silicosis and macular pneumoconiosis.
Taguchi O, Saitoh Y, Saitoh K, Fuyuki T, Shida H, Mishina M, Chiyotani K, Honma K
Am J Ind Med 2000 Mar;37(3):260-4. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0274(200003)37:3<260::aid-ajim3>3.0.co;2-w. PMID: 10642415

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