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One-year lung transplantation outcomes for engineered stone countertop workers with silicosis at a single center in Southern California, 2019 to 2023.

Reice Robinson, Jeremy T Hua, Bryanna Lee, Karen Villegas, Samvel Gaboyan, Cecile S Rose, Christine M Lin, Eugene Golts, Gordon Yung, Tara Akins and 4 more

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14 authors.

Reice RobinsonDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine & Physiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
Jeremy T HuaDivision of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado.
Bryanna LeeDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine & Physiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
Karen VillegasDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine & Physiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
Samvel GaboyanDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine & Physiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
Cecile S RoseDivision of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado.
Christine M LinDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine & Physiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
Eugene GoltsDepartment of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
Gordon YungDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine & Physiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
Tara AkinsDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine & Physiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
Catherine GaissertDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine & Physiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
Christina MallesDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine & Physiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
Ana Maria GloriaDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine & Physiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
Kamyar AfsharDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine & Physiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: In the past decade, growing industrial exposure to respirable crystalline silica from manufacturing engineered stone (ES) products has caused rapidly progressive, irreversible silicosis worldwide. Consequently, there has been a recent surge in lung transplants for ES silicosis but few reports of post-transplant outcomes. We compared perioperative and 1-year post-transplant outcomes for silicosis and nonsilicosis interstitial lung disease (ILD) recipients at UC San Diego (UCSD) Health. Methods: Using the electronic health record and United Network for Organ Sharing database, we identified 7 patients with silicosis and 69 with nonsilicosis ILD who underwent double lung transplantation at UCSD from 2019-2023. We compared pretransplant, perioperative, and 1-year post-transplant outcomes between groups. Results: Recipients with silicosis were younger than those with nonsilicosis ILD (43.1 ± 9.9 vs 59.3 ± 7.1 years; Conclusions: Though reflecting a failure of prevention, lung transplantation should be considered as a therapeutic option for patients with end-stage silicosis from exposure to ES.

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artificial stoneengineered stonelung transplantationoccupational medicinesilicosis

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PMCPMC12159514

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