Black lung disease

Black lung disease
Lung disease resulting from coal mining. The silica mineral and carbon in the dust raised by coal mining can cause a serious chronic lung disease. Emphysema occurs first, followed by scarring and nodule formation in the lung tissues. Symptoms and breathing function tests can be much worse than the chest X-ray picture would suggest. There is no specific treatment. Also called coal worker’s pneumoconiosis.

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