Persistent effects of chlorine inhalation on respiratory health

GW Hoyle, ER Svendsen - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Chlorine gas is a toxic respiratory irritant that is considered a chemical threat agent because
of the potential for release in industrial accidents or terrorist attacks. Chlorine inhalation …

Occupational causes of constrictive bronchiolitis

K Kreiss - Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Clinicians need a high index of suspicion for constrictive bronchiolitis in young patients with
rapidly progressing exertional dyspnea, regardless of spirometric and radiologic findings …

Carvacrol ameliorates haematological parameters, oxidant/antioxidant biomarkers and pulmonary function tests in patients with sulphur mustard‐induced lung …

MR Khazdair, A Alavinezhad… - Journal of clinical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
What is known and objective In this study, the effect of carvacrol (CAR) on pulmonary
function tests (PFT), haematological indices and oxidant/antioxidant biomarkers in patients …

An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: chemical inhalational disasters. Biology of lung injury, development of novel therapeutics, and medical …

EM Summerhill, GW Hoyle, SE Jordt… - Annals of the …, 2017 - atsjournals.org
This report is based on the proceedings from the Inhalational Lung Injury Workshop jointly
sponsored by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the National Institutes of Health …

Mustard vesicant-induced lung injury: Advances in therapy

B Weinberger, R Malaviya, VR Sunil, A Venosa… - Toxicology and applied …, 2016 - Elsevier
Most mortality and morbidity following exposure to vesicants such as sulfur mustard is due to
pulmonary toxicity. Acute injury is characterized by epithelial detachment and necrosis in the …

Bronchiolitis obliterans and pulmonary fibrosis after sulfur mustard inhalation in rats

MD McGraw, MM Dysart, TB Hendry-Hofer… - American Journal of …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
Inhalation of powerful chemical agents, such as sulfur mustard (SM), can have debilitating
pulmonary consequences, such as bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) and parenchymal fibrosis …

Sulfur mustard inhalation: mechanisms of injury, alteration of coagulation, and fibrinolytic therapy

CW White, RC Rancourt… - Annals of the New York …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Acute lung injury due to sulfur mustard (SM) inhalation causes the formation of airway fibrin
casts that obstruct airways at multiple levels, leading to acute respiratory failure and death …

The role of N-acetylcysteine in the management of acute and chronic pulmonary complications of sulfur mustard: a literature review

M Shohrati, I Karimzadeh, A Saburi, H Khalili… - Inhalation …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Context: Sulfur mustard exposure, as the most widely used chemical weapon, can lead to
acute and long-term pulmonary complications via various pathways, such as triggering an …

Respiratory effects of sulfur mustard exposure, similarities and differences with asthma and COPD

MR Khazdair, MH Boskabady, V Ghorani - Inhalation toxicology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Context: Previous research has found relationships between sulfur mustard (SM) toxicity and
its adverse effects. Objective: SM is highly toxic to the respiratory system, leading to hacking …

Long-term health effects of chemical warfare agents on children following a single heavy exposure

JM Talabani, AI Ali, AM Kadir… - Human & …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In the 1980s, villages in the Kurdistan region of Iraq were exposed to chemical weapons
(CWs), which killed and injured thousands of civilians. There has been no clinical …