Pulmonary hypertension secondary to pulmonary asbestos. About 3 cases

ABSTRACT

After having during twenty years in a factory using asbestos cement, three morkmen have presented pulmonary fibrosis that manifested itself by a severe dyspnea, cough and expectoration, radiologically by diffuse pulmonary lesions with basal predominance and linear disposition, associated to a pleural calcification characteristic of the asbestosous origin. During the evolution, this pulmonary fibrosis has been complicated by chronic cor pulmonale right ventricular hypertrophy and a pulmonary hypertension in those cases