Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Aluminium dust pneumoconiosis a clinical study

  • Published:
Internationales Archiv für Gewerbepathologie und Gewerbehygiene Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Summary

In connection with the discussion of five cases of pneumoconiosis occurring in an aluminium powder mill the authors refer to the possibility of aluminium dust pneumoconiosis being a distinct disease entity. The cases under review have been followed up to 7 years after the first positive X-ray picture. The progress of the disease seems to be initially rapid, but if exposure ceases it seems to be arrested after some time. In mild cases the symptoms may regress. In severe cases the changes in the lungs may cause an increased load on the right ventricle, ultimately leading to failure. Not even in these severe cases is there evidence of continuous progress of the changes in the lungs.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

Literature

  • Barth, G., W. Frik u. H. Scheidemantel: Die Aluminiumlunge. Verlaufsbeobachtungen und Neuerkrankungen in der Nachkriegszeit. Dtsch. med. Wschr. 81, 1115 (1956).

    Google Scholar 

  • Birath, G.: Lung volume and ventilation efficiency. Acta med. stand. Suppl. 154 (1944).

  • Crombie, D. W., J. L. Blaisdell and G. Macpherson: The treatment of silicosis by aluminium powder. Canad. med. Ass. J. 50, 318 (1944).

    Google Scholar 

  • Dérobert, L., P. F. Ceccaldi, R. Martin, A. Rimsky, J. Vaoher et Y. Vichenevsky: L'éxamen des poumons des rats exposés aux poussières de polissage d'hélices en duralmin. Arch. Mal. prof. 16, 108 (1955).

    Google Scholar 

  • Doese, M.: Gewerbemedizinische Studien zur Frage der Gesundheitsschädigungen durch Aluminium, insbesondere der Aluminiumstaublunge. Arch. Gewerbepath. Gewerbehyg. 8, 501 (1938).

    Google Scholar 

  • Edling, N. P. G.: Aluminium Pneumoconiosis. A roentgendiagnostic study of five cases. Acta radiol. (Stockh.) 56, 170 (1961).

    Google Scholar 

  • Ehrismann, O.: Über die Schädlichkeit von Aluminiumstaub bei der Aufnahme durch die Atemwege. Z. Hyg. Infekt.-Kr. 122, 166 (1939).

    Google Scholar 

  • Goralewski, G.: Klinische und tierexperimentelle Studien zur Frage der Aluminium-Staublunge. Arch. Gewerbepath. Gewerbehyg. 9, 676 (1939).

    Google Scholar 

  • —: Zur Symptomatologie der Aluminium-Staublunge. Arch. Gewerbepath. Gewerbehyg. 10, 384 (1940).

    Google Scholar 

  • —: Zur Klinik der Aluminiumlunge. Arch. Gewerbepath. Gewerbehyg. 11, 106 (1941).

    Google Scholar 

  • —: Weitere Erfahrungen zum Krankheitsbild der Aluminiumlunge. Dtsch. Tuberk.-Blatt 17, 3 (1943).

    Google Scholar 

  • —: Die Aluminiumlunge — eine neue Gewerbeerkrankung. Z. ges. inn. Med. 2, 665 (1947).

    Google Scholar 

  • — Die Aluminiumlunge. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth 1950.

    Google Scholar 

  • —, u. R. Jaeger: Zur Klinik, Pathologie und Pathogenese der Aluminiumlunge. Arch. Gewerbepath. Gewerbehyg. 11, 102 (1941).

    Google Scholar 

  • Hunter, D., R. Milton, K. M. A. Perry and D. R. Thompson: Effect of aluminium and alumina on the lung in grinders of duralumin aeroplane propellers. Brit. J. industr. Med. 1, 159 (1944).

    Google Scholar 

  • Ivanov, M. G., and I. S. Ostrovskaja: The effect of aluminium dust on the animal organism (russ.). Gig. i Sanit. 4, 21 (1950).

    Google Scholar 

  • Jötten, K. W., u. W. Eichhoff: Zur Frage der Lungengefährlichkeit des Aluminiumstaubes. Reichsarbeitsblatt III 22, 102 (1942).

    Google Scholar 

  • King, E. J., C. V. Harrison, G. P. Mohanty and M. Yoganathan: The effect of aluminium and of aluminium containing 5 per cent of quartz in the lungs of rats. J. Path. Bact. 75, 429 (1958).

    Google Scholar 

  • Koelsch, F.: Die Lungenerkrankung durch Aluminiumstaub. Beitr. Klin. Tuberk. 97, 688 (1942).

    Google Scholar 

  • Koelsch, F., u. E. Lederer: Die Metallfarbenherstellung und ihre gesundheitliche Beurteilung — mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Staubgefährdung. Arch. Gewerbepath. Gewerbehyg. 5, 108 (1933).

    Google Scholar 

  • Lederer, E.: Erkrankungen der tieferen Luftwege und der Lungen durch Aluminium oder seine Verbindungen. Verh. dtsch. Ges. Arbeitsschutz 1, 118 (1953).

    Google Scholar 

  • Merkel, G.: Handbuch der Hygiene und Gewerbekrankheiten. Leipzig: Vogel 1882.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mitchell, J.: Pulmonary fibrosis in an aluminium worker. Brit. J. industr. Med. 16, 123 (1959).

    Google Scholar 

  • Policard, A.: Effets de l'inhalation de particules d'aluminium métallique sur le tissu pulmonaire. C. R. Soc. Biol. (Paris) 135, 961 (1941).

    Google Scholar 

  • —: Recherches experiméntales sur les capacités nocives des poussières d'aluminium métallique. Bull. Acad. nat. Méd. (Paris) 131, 543 (1947).

    Google Scholar 

  • Rüttner, J. R., and W. Willy: Die Gewebsreaktion auf Aluminium im Peritonealtest. Schweiz. Z. allg. Path. 16, 216 (1953).

    Google Scholar 

  • Sjöstrand, T.: Changes in the respiratory organs of workmen at an ore smelting works. Acta med. stand. Suppl. 196, 687 (1947).

    Google Scholar 

  • Thorel, C.: Die Specksteinlunge. Ein Beitrag zur pathologischen Anatomie der Staublungen. Beitr. path. Anat. 20, 85 (1896).

    Google Scholar 

  • Wahlund, H.: Determination of the physical working capacity. Physiological and clinical study with special reference to standardization of cardio-pulmonary functional tests. Acta med. stand. Suppl. 215 (1948).

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Occupational Medicine, Karolinska sjukhuset, Stockholm

    Å Swensson

  2. Medical Department of the County Hospital, Jönköping

    O. Nordenfelt

  3. Department of Occupational Health, Swedish Employer's Confederation, Stockholm

    S. Forssman

  4. Department of Occupational Health, National Institute of Public Health, Stockholm

    K. -D. Lundgren & H. Öhman

Authors
  1. Å Swensson
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. O. Nordenfelt
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. S. Forssman
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. K. -D. Lundgren
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. H. Öhman
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

In honor of Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. E. W. BAADER on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Swensson, Å., Nordenfelt, O., Forssman, S. et al. Aluminium dust pneumoconiosis a clinical study. Int. Arch. Gewerbepath. Gewerbehyg. 19, 131–148 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00398106

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00398106

Keywords

Search

Navigation