Correspondence to: Dr K Radon, Unit for Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology & Net Teaching, Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336 Munich, Germany; katja. [email protected] _________________________ E ndotoxins, part of the outer membrane of Gram negative bacteria, are a potent inducer of neutrophilic airway inflammatio...

Patients presenting with symptoms related to the respiratory system can be challenging to the physician as a number of diseases can overlap in the semiology. For instance, asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease, interstitial lung disease and inflammatory lung disease can all present with dyspnea. The main differentiating factors between these disorders are the epidemiological and demographic ...

occupational asthma has been reported  to  be the most  common  chronic respiratory occupational disease in many developed countries, and  as with other  occupational lung diseases, occupational asthma is potentially preventable. we report  the case of a 24-year-old baker who experienced pneumomediastinum as a consequence of workplace exposure. this is the first report of pneumomediastinum as a...