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ArticleAmerican journal of industrial medicine2017

Allergic sinusitis and severe asthma caused by occupational exposure to locust bean gum: Case report.

Brie Hawley, Kristin J Cummings, Mohammed Mohammed, Anne E Dimmock, Rebecca Bascom

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Article in American journal of industrial medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Brie HawleyRespiratory Health Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, West Virginia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7698-809X
Kristin J CummingsRespiratory Health Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Mohammed MohammedJohn Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Anne E DimmockPulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Rebecca BascomPulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health · USPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · USSaudi Aramco Medical Services Organization · SA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a case that highlights the difficulties with diagnosis and the dangers of occupational allergic sinusitis and asthma left unrecognized. We describe the case history of a man who experienced work-related symptoms 1 year after beginning work as a cheesemaker at a creamery, and whose respiratory symptoms progressively worsened over 16 years before an occupational cause of his asthma was identified. His initial discrete episodes of sinusitis and acute bronchitis evolved into persistent asthma of increasing severity with exacerbations requiring repeated emergency room treatment. The case described in our report emphasizes the importance of clinician diagnosis of OA, and subsequent removal from exposure, such that asthma severity does not progress to near-fatal or fatal asthma in the sensitized worker. As demonstrated by this case report, identification of an occupational cause of asthma relies on a high degree of suspicion and excellent detective work by the clinician.

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Delayed DiagnosisAdultAsthmaGalactansHumansMaleMannansOccupational DiseasesOccupational ExposurePlant GumsRespiratory Function TestsSinusitisGalactanslocust bean gumMannansPlant Gumsasthmagencarob bean gumlocust bean gumoccupational asthmasevere asthma

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PMID28497854
PMCPMC5745799
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