Features of anthracosis at the department of occupation al diseases at Thanh nhan hospital

ABSTRACT

In Janruary – November 2001 period, at Thanh Nhan Hospital (Hanoi), 50 patients with pneumoconiosis were studied. Pneumoconiosis is common and accounts for 7.47% of all occupational diseases. The most common ones are acquired by silice, cotton dust and feather dust. The severity is related mainly with the exposure duration, the history of frequently acquired respiratory diseases. Common symptoms are dypnoea 70%, cough 62%, sputum 40%, diverse rale of lung 52%, changes of lung X-ray image, electrocardiogramme and especially impairing lung function. The common conditions and complications are pneumonia, heart failure, chronique heart – lung syndrome, heart dysrhytmia, hemophtisia and pulmonary infarction