Asthma in the Workplace, Second Edition,

by Bernstein, I. Leonard; Chan-Yeung, Moira; Malo, Jean-Luc; Bernstein, David I.

• ISBN13: 9780824719630
• ISBN10: 0824719638
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-15
• Publisher: Informa Healthc

Summary

Fully updated to include crucial advances in the subject since publication of the First Edition, the Second Edition of this comprehensive volume reviews all aspects of occupational asthma, including disease mechanisms, clinical diagnosis and treatment, and categories of causative agents. Includes new and expanded material on hypersensitivity pneumonitis and organic dust toxic syndromes sick building syndrome occupational rhinitis and urticaria, skin problems, and genetics of occupational asthma animal, enzyme, and flour allergies latex allergy irritant-induced asthma (RADS) Featuring contributions from over 45 international authorities in the field-nearly 20 more than the First Edition-Asthma in the Workplace, Second Edition evaluates medicolegal and compensation issues discusses inhalation challenge testing addresses the social outcomes of workers disabled by asthma explores environmental exposure to causative chemicals and protein allergens and more! With numerous references, tables, drawings, photographs, and micrographs, Asthma in the Workplace, Second Edition will be welcomed by clinical immunologists and allergists, pulmonologists, occupational health and thoracic physicians, industrial hygienists, internists, toxicologists, immunotoxicologists, epidemiologists, aerosol scientists, lawyers involved with compensation issues, and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction	ix
Contributors	xiii
Part I General Considerations
Definition and Classification of Asthma	1	(4)
I. Leonard Bernstein
David I. Bernstein
Moira Chan-Yeung
Jean-Luc Malo
Historical Aspects of Occupational Asthma	5	(22)
Jack Pepys
I. Leonard Bernstein
Epidemiological Approaches in Occupational Asthma	27	(40)
Margaret R. Becklake
Jean-Luc Malo
Moira Chan-Yeung
Genetics and Occupational Asthma	67	(14)
Anthony J. Newman Taylor
Pathophysiology	81	(30)
Leonardo M. Fabbri
Piera Boschetto
Gaetano Caramori
Cristina Elisabetta Mapp
Animal Models of Occupational Asthma	111	(18)
Katherine Sarlo
Meryl Karol
Natural History of Occupational Asthma	129	(16)
Moira Chan-Yeung
Jean-Luc Malo
Part II Assessment and Management
Clinical Assessment and Management of Occupational Asthma	145	(14)
David I. Bernstein
Immunological Evaluation of Occupational Asthma	159	(14)
Leslie C. Grammer
Roy Patterson
Nonspecific Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness	173	(20)
Anthony Johnson
Moira Chan-Yeung
Physiological Assessment: Serial Measurements of Lung Function	193	(18)
Sherwood Burge
Gianna Moscato
Occupational Challenge Tests	211	(24)
Andre Cartier
Jean-Luc Malo
Environmental Monitoring of Protein Aeroallergens	235	(22)
Charles E. Reed
Mark C. Swanson
James T. Li
Environmental Monitoring of Chemical Agents	257	(22)
Jacques Lesage
Guy Perrault
Medicolegal and Compensation Aspects	279	(20)
I. Leonard Bernstein
Helena Keskinen
Jean-Luc Malo
Evaluation of Impairment/Disability in Subjects with Occupational Asthma	299	(16)
Jean-Luc Malo
Paul Blanc
Moira Chan-Yeung
Surveillance and Prevention	315	(16)
David I. Bernstein
Gary M.Liss
Part III Specific Disease Entities
Upper Airways Involvement	331	(10)
David C. Christiani
Jean-Luc Malo
Occupational Urticaria	341	(22)
Boris D. Lushniak
C. G. Toby Mathias
Enzymes	363	(14)
Jonathan A. Bernstein
William Gerald Gaines Jr.
Occupational Asthma in the Baking Industry	377	(22)
Dick Heederik
Anthony J. Newman Taylor
Animal, Insect, and Shellfish Allergy	399	(26)
Susan Gordon
Anthony J. Newman Taylor
Latex Allergy	425	(20)
Olivier Vandenplas
B. Lauren Charous
Susan M. Tarlo
High-Molecular-Weight Protein Agents	445	(12)
David I. Bernstein
Jean-Luc Malo
Polyisocyanates and Their Prepolymers	457	(22)
Cristina Elisabetta Mapp
Brian T. Butcher
Leonardo M. Fabbri
Acid Anhydrides	479	(22)
C. Raymond Zeiss
Roy Patterson
Katherine M. Venables
Metals	501	(22)
I. Leonard Bernstein
Benoit Nemery
Stuart Brooks
Other Chemical Substances Causing Occupational Asthma	523	(20)
Jean-Luc Malo
I. Leonard Bernstein
Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata) and Other Wood Dusts	543	(22)
Moria Chan-Yeung
Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome, or Irritant-Induced Asthma	565	(30)
Denyse Gautrin
I. Leonard Bernstein
Stuart Brooks
Cotton and Other Textile Dusts	595	(22)
James A. Merchant
I. Leonard Bernstein
Anthony Pickering
Grain Dust-Induced Lung Diseases	617	(18)
Moira Chan-Yeung
Susan M. Kennedy
David A. Schwartz
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Organic Dust toxic Syndromes	635	(22)
Yvon Cormier
Hal B. Richerson
Cecile S. Rose
Building-Related Illnesses	657	(26)
Dick Menzies
Part IV Compendiums
Tables of Major Inducers of Occupational Asthma	683	(38)
Moira Chan-Yeung
Jean-Luc Malo
The United States National Occupational Exposure Survey (NOES) Data Base	721	(8)
Joseph A. Seta
Randy O. Young
David H. Pedersen
I. Leonard Bernstein
David I. Bernstein
Asthma Works: The English Version of the Telematic Information System (Minitel) on Occupational Asthma	729	(2)
Jonathan A. Bernstein
Jean-Luc Malo
Henriette Dhivert-Donnadieu
Philippe Godard
Brigitte Perrin
Jean Bousquet
Francois-Bernard Michel
Appendix: Occupational History Form	731	(4)
Index	735