السحار القطني البسليني لدى عمال الغزل في معمل الغزل باللاذقية

Long and chronic exposure to cotton dust causes effects which were already known and described in symptoms, radiological findings, and changes in pulmonary function. In this study, we have made an arterial blood gases analysis, pulmonary function analysis, and chest X-rays for one hundred cotton workers with at least eight years' work experience, or more. This study has shown that 28 workers (24 of them being smokers) have an obstructive pulmonary function, 7 of whom have an abnormal chest X-ray. 4 workers (3 of them being smoking) have both an obstructive and restrictive pulmonary function, 3 of whom have fibrotic chest X-rays .