Abstract

COJ Technical & Scientific Research

Silicosis: A Blow to Human Kind and its Breakthrough

Submission: April 27, 2019; Published: May 07, 2019

Abstract

The article gives an insight of respiratory disease silicosis its origin characteristics, diagnosis as well as treatment of it. More prevalent among the workers who are exposed to silica develops silicosis causing difficulty in breathing and finally leading to other health issues and sometimes being fatal. Diagnosis procedures involves X-ray of chest, parameters of lungs as well as EBUS-TBNA. Though silicosis is termed as almost incurable and prevention is the best precautions scientists have developed few drugs for it which are still under investigation.

Silicosis; Pulmonary disease; Silica; Respiratory disease; Tuberculosis

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