ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)
Two Cases of Tsunami Dust Pneumonia: Organizing Pneumonia Caused by the Inhalation of Dried Tsunami Sludge after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
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- Respiratory impacts of earthquakes.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026Review
- Autoimmune Diseases Following Environmental Disasters: A Narrative Review of the Literature.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Evacuation at Home Delayed the First Medical Intervention in Minamisanriku Town after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.Prehospital and disaster medicine · 2023Article
- Increased neutrophils and IL-17A in a rare organizing pneumonia secondary to extrapulmonary operation.Annals of translational medicine · 2019Article
- Update of occupational lung disease.Journal of occupational health · 2019Review
- The influence of the Great East Japan earthquake on microscopic polyangiitis: A retrospective observational study.PloS one · 2017Observational
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Abstract
We report two cases of organizing pneumonia (OP) secondary to the inhalation of the dried tsunami sludge which formed during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the consequent tsunami. After the disaster, both of these patients had been engaged in the restoration work. About half a month later, they developed shortness of breath and pulmonary infiltrates. These patients were diagnosed with interstitial pneumonia. Their biopsy specimens revealed multifocal peribronchiolitis and OP. An electron probe microanalysis of these specimens demonstrated the presence of elements from the earth's crust in the inflammatory lesions. These two cases indicate that exposure to dried tsunami sludge can cause OP.
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