104 results for “Reaction Department”, page 1 of 6
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Mesothelioid reaction following talc pleurodesis: a case report
…Such a mesothelioid reaction can clinically and radiographically mimic malignant mesothelioma. We conclude that Talc pleurodesis played a causative role in this patient developing an intense mesothelioid reaction. A mesothelioid reaction should be included in the…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court · May 25, 1972 · in the opinion
Bambrick v. Asten Hill Mfg. Co. et al. (1972)
…nature. What Dr. Fite is describing are asbestos bodies and these are characteristic tissue reaction to the presence of asbestos fibers." (Emphasis added) (R. 41a-42a) It is true as stated by the majority that Dr…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Can serum inflammatory parameters estimate outcome of pleurodesis in mesothelioma?
…be desirable. This study was aimed to investigate whether systemic inflammatory reaction induced by insuflation of talc into the pleura can predict the outcome of pleurodesis. A total of 58 consecutive patients (26 men, 32 women…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · November 11, 2020 · in the opinion
Olson v. Brenntag N. Am., Inc. (2020)
…present. And Ms. Olson's strong and immediate reaction to hearing about a possible connection between talcum powder and cancer suggests otherwise. The First Department decisions J&J cites are not to the contrary. In Sosna…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 8, 1982 · in the opinion
White v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)
…June 1948 until June 1980). During those years he worked in various departments of Johns-Manville including the transite pipe plant where he was exposed to asbestos fibers and silica, the asbestos shingle plant where he…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 9, 1991 · in the opinion
Wehmeier v. Unr Industries, Inc. (1991)
…On redirect, Abrams stated that, assuming (1) Cochran worked with amosite asbestos in the pipe department at the plant; and (2) Manville delivered 325 tons of chrysotile asbestos to the plant, Cochran could have inhaled some…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · August 13, 1982 · in the opinion
Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1982)
…and a study to be published by the Labor Department estimates that at least 8,500 workers — perhaps as many as 10,000 — will die each year until the end of this century from asbestos-related…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · June 5, 1995 · in the opinion
Ripa v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1995)
…Vorwald to Hazard suggesting that Kaylo produced an asbestosis-like reaction in the lungs and that "every precaution should be taken to minimize exposure of industrial employees." (9) The final confidential January 1952 project report concluding…
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Disease
What is asbestosis
…and is injured or destroyed in the attempt, releasing the inflammatory signals that keep the cycle of damage going (right). That failed-clearance reaction, called frustrated phagocytosis, is a central reason long amphibole fibers are the…
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Court case · Montana Workers' Comp. Court · May 5, 2014 · in the opinion
Baeth v. Liberty NW Ins. Corp. (2014)
…usually ten years, from the time of exposure to the time of evaluation; and (3) evidence of structural changes caused by a reaction to the asbestos fibers.\[40\] ¶ 31 Dr. Black further explained that getting an…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · November 18, 1993 · in the opinion
Srite v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1993)
…in physical pain. Mr. Ben had been employed at the Petrotex Refinery in the labor department as an insulator. He worked on a daily basis as a sandblaster throughout his tenure at Petrotex, from 1958 until…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 22, 2012 · in the opinion
Feinberg v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. (2012)
…term use. Plaintiffs suffered severe neurological reactions from taking the generic form of the drug and brought state tort claims against the manufacturers of metoclopramide for failing to adequately warn them of such danger. The basis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Pulmonary granulomatous reaction: talc pneumoconiosis or chronic sarcoidosis?
A chronic pulmonary granulomatous reaction was associated with an almost identical clinical picture in two patients exposed to talc. In both patients lung biopsy showed the deposition of talc particles and a heavy granulomatous reaction. At…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Fiber localization and its relationship to lung reaction in rats after chronic inhalation of chrysotile asbestos
…with histologic changes indicating marked epithelial injury. Increased amounts of fibers are also localized in the lung interstitium with continued exposure to asbestos and are associated with a progressive interstitial fibrotic reaction. Following cessation of exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1948
Morbidity and Mortality in Talc Granuloma: Report of a Fatal Case
This 1948 article reported one fatal case of talc granuloma, a reaction to talcum powder used on surgical gloves and rubber drains. The patient, a woman, was first operated on in December 1942, at age 36…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
Pulmonary talc granulomatosis. A complication of drug abuse
…who had injected methylphenidate (Ritalin) tablets into their veins. Granulomatosis here means small clusters of inflammatory cells forming in the lungs in reaction to talc particles. The authors explained that talc is used as a filler…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Positive FDG-PET/CT of the pleura twenty years after talc pleurodesis: three cases of benign talcoma
…This inflammatory reaction could decrease with time, as in other inflammatory processes. Since talc is not metabolized by the body, the FDG-PET scan can remain positive, most likely because of a foreign-body granulomatous reaction…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1967
Tissue response to intraperitoneal asbestos with preliminary report of acute toxicity of heart-treated asbestos in mice
…plaques and invasive granulomas, while none of 12 talc mice did. The authors described the reaction as histologically similar to mesothelioma but obtained no morphologic evidence of actual malignancy. In a second experiment, asbestos heated to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Gallium scanning in differentiating malignant from benign asbestos-related pleural disease
…no history of exposure. Scans were also positive in 3 of the 16 patients with benign disease (19%), and tissue removed from these three showed a strong inflammatory reaction. Among asbestos-exposed patients, the scan's…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Immune adherence reactivity of rat alveolar macrophages following inhalation of crocidolite asbestos
…a statistically significant difference. Sheep red cells, which cannot take part in this reaction, stuck far less to macrophages from exposed rats. Treating the cells with antiserum against the complement component C3 reduced adherence to 4…