33 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Pleural plaques in the general population
…pleural plaques to measure the impact of asbestos on the general population of Uppsala county, Sweden, which had a population of 250,782 in 1985. A general health survey invited all inhabitants aged 15 and over…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Prevalence of pleural calcification in persons exposed to asbestos dust, and in the general population in the same district
…not minus only the 8. Each exposed group had more cases than expected from the general population (workers: 42 against an expected 2.75). The authors reported these differences as statistically significant at the 1% level…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Computer tomography in the evaluation of pulmonary asbestosis. Preliminary experiences with the EMI general purpose scanner
…from Harrow, England, described early experience using computer tomography (CT) with the EMI general purpose scanner in 13 patients exposed to asbestos for between one and 40 years. Each had 5 to 8 CT sections, which…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
CT and MR in pleural disease
This article is a narrative review by a radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. It describes how computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging are used to examine pleural disease, drawing on published studies. It reports…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
Effect of hyaluronate on the electrophoretic migration of plasma proteins in pleural fluid
This 1970 report from the Department of Clinical Chemistry at Malmö General Hospital, Sweden, described laboratory findings in pleural fluid from one patient, a 60-year-old welder with fluid around both lungs (bilateral pleural effusions…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Asbestos-related pleural thickening: effect of threshold criteria on interpretation
This study, from the radiology department of Massachusetts General Hospital, examined how the rule for what counts as pleural thickening on a chest X-ray changes survey results. Chest radiographs from 1,216 workers at six…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Imaging of the pleura
This article was a review by a radiologist at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver General Hospital. It summarized published research on imaging of pleural disease: fluid around the lung, empyema (infection), focal disease such…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Potential asbestos exposure among patients with primary lung cancer in Japan
…for workers, the study subjects may contain a higher proportion of workers than the general population. Pleural plaques were identified in 12.8% of subjects (15.8% in males and 4.9% in females), consisting exclusively…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Value of the lateral view in diagnosing pleural plaques
…assess the value of the lateral view in the diagnosis of pleural plaques, 2018 chest roentgenograms from the general population were scrutinized for such plaques. The lateral and posterior-anterior (PA) views were read separately and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
New developments in asbestos-induced pleural disease
…plaques and diffuse pleural thickening, together called pleural fibrosis. It reported that across 16 general-population autopsy studies, pleural plaques were found in 857 of 7,085 autopsies (12.2 percent, range 0.5 to 39…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
A retrospective study of chest pain in benign asbestos pleural disease
…recognized, particularly in those with folded atelectasis and is not restricted to litigants. Improved recognition of this entity is needed along with practical management guidelines for the general practitioner. Further studies are envisaged by the authors.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Diseases associated with asbestos exposure. Diagnostic perspectives in forensic pathology
…from highest to lowest risk: direct occupational, indirect occupational, neighborhood, and household and family. They said the risk from general environmental exposure was not known. They described pleural effusions, pleural plaques, asbestosis, pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Flex-rigid pleuroscopy under local anesthesia in patients with dry pleural dissemination on radiography
…mesothelioma in 2 and chronic inflammation in 3. The remaining patient was suspected of malignant pleural mesothelioma and was diagnosed with it after a second biopsy under general anesthesia. Two dry-group patients had minor complications…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Pleural effusion during bromocriptine exposure in two patients with pre-existing asbestos pleural plaques: a relationship?
…also received steroids, had normal lung function 12 months after he first presented. The second man's general symptoms eased quickly, but his chest X-ray and lung function did not improve substantially. The authors concluded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Asbestos, Pleural Plaques, and Lung Cancer: Untangling the Relationships
…depends on precise exposure estimates. The author concluded that people with known moderate to heavy exposure should not be denied CT screening because they lack plaques. In general populations, the author wrote, bilateral plaques should prompt…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Modelling prevalence and incidence of fibrosis and pleural plaques in asbestos-exposed populations for screening and follow-up: a cross-sectional study
…not duration, should be included in high-risk definitions for screening. They also concluded that short-interval CT follow-up for plaques seemed not warranted. They noted the volunteers were not representative of the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos exposure and fire fighting
…that fire fighters are at risk of asbestos-induced pleural and pulmonary fibrosis independent of other exposure. They noted that 9% pleural thickening exceeded the roughly 2% reported in general population studies. They recommended reducing exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Environmental airborne tremolite asbestos pollution and pleural plaques in Afghanistan
…and that this hazard may be encountered in Afghanistan. They could not obtain detailed information on how common pleural plaques on chest X-rays are in the general population of the Kabul area and Loghar region.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Thoracic surgical problems in asbestos-related disorders
…received chemotherapy survived an average of 12.4 months. The authors judged their surgical experience with 23 lung cancer patients no different from lung cancer in general. They concluded that nearly all plaque operations could have…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Pleural abnormalities in the Framingham Heart Study: prevalence and CT image features
The prevalence of pleural abnormalities in the general population is an epidemiologically important index of asbestos exposure, which has not been investigated since a radiography-based study in 1980. We examined 2633 chest CT scans (mean…