Subject: bronchial provocation tests
Subject: isocyanates
Subject: occupational asthma
Subject: peak expiratory flow rate
Subject: work-exacerbated asthma
Year: 2008
Type: Article
Title: Work-related asthma in automobile spray painters: two case reports
Author: Jordan Minov
Author: Jovanka Karadzinska-Bislimovska
Author: Kristin Vasilevska
Author: Risteska-Kuc, Snezana
Author: Saso Stoleski
Abstract: This report describes two patients who had developed asthma after working as automobile painters with isocyanate-based aerosol paint for two years or over. In both patients asthma was confirmed using the standard diagnostic procedure. One of the subjects was atopic. One was ex-smoker and the other had never smoked. Neither had a family history of asthma. The symptoms occurred after workplace exposure lasting two years in one patient and three in the other. As both reported work-relatedness of the symptoms, they underwent serial peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) measurement and bronchoprovocation testing. Significant work-related changes in PEFR diurnal variations and in non-specific bronchial hyperresponsiveness (NSBH) were observed in one patient, suggesting allergic occupational asthma (OA), while the other patient was diagnosed work-exacerbated asthma (WEA). Our data confirm that spray painting is an occupation with increased risk of respiratory impairment and asthma.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Relation: Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/9837
Identifier: 0004-1254
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/9837Identifier: 10.2478/10004-1254-59-2008-1858
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