European Journal of Radiology
Volume 52, Issue 2 , Pages 192-199 , November 2004

Biomass exposure and the high resolution computed tomographic and spirometric findings

  • Mubeccel Arslan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet Universitesi, Tip Fakultesi Hastanesi, Radyoloji Anabilim Dali, 58140 Sivas, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +90-346-2191300/2125/2258; GSM: +90-532-4136023; fax: +90-346-2191284.
    • ,
  • Ibrahim Akkurt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Chest Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet Universitesi, Tip Fakultesi Hastanesi, Radyoloji Anabilim Dali, 58140 Sivas, Turkey
    • ,
  • Hulusi Egilmez

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet Universitesi, Tip Fakultesi Hastanesi, Radyoloji Anabilim Dali, 58140 Sivas, Turkey
    • ,
  • Mehmet Atalar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet Universitesi, Tip Fakultesi Hastanesi, Radyoloji Anabilim Dali, 58140 Sivas, Turkey
    • ,
  • Ismail Salk

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Sivas Numune Hospital, Sivas, Turkey

Received 27 November 2003 ,Revised 14 January 2004 ,Accepted 16 January 2004.

References 

  1. DeKoning HW, Smith KR, Last JM. Biomass fuel combustion and health. Bull World Health Organ. 1985;63:11–26
  2. Behera D, Jindel SK. Respiratory symptoms in Indian women using domestic cooking fuels. Chest. 1991;100:385–388
  3. Pandey MR, Boleij JSM, Smith KR, Wafula EM. Indoor air pollution in developing countries and acute respiratory infection in children. Lancet. 1989;i:427–428
  4. Perez-Padilla R, Regalado J, Vedal S, Pare P, Chapela R, Sansores R, et al.  Exposure to biomass smoke and chronic airway disease in Mexican women. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 1996;154:701–706
  5. Smith KR, Aggarwal AL, Dave RM. Air pollution and rural biomass fuels in developing countries: a pilot village study in India and implications for research and policy. Atmos. Environ. 1983;17:2343–2362
  6. Albalak R, Frisancho AR, Keeler GJ. Domestic biomass fuel combustion and chronic bronchitis in two rural Bolivian villages. Thorax. 1999;54:1004–1008
  7. Bruce N, Neufeld L, Boy E, West C. Indoor biofuel air pollution and respiratory health: the role of confounding factors among women in highland Guatemala. Int. J. Epidemiol. 1998;27:454–458
  8. Demirtaş N, Seyfikli Z, Topçu S. Sivas bölgesinden hastanemize başvuran kadın hastalarda geleneksel biomass kullanımı ile KOAH arasındaki ilişki (The relatinoships between traditional biomass combustion and development of COPD in women of Sivas area). Solunum Hastalıkları Dergisi (J. Respir. Dis.). 1999;10:148–155 (in Turkish)
  9. Gani H, Seyfikli Z, Çelik VK, Akkurt İ, Abadoğlu Ö. The effect of biomass exposure on lipid peroxidation and antioxidant activities on Turkish female groups. Eur. Respir. J. 2000;16(Suppl. 31):108s
  10. Süngü YS, Çınar Z, Akkurt İ, Özdemir Ö, Seyfikli Z. Sister-chromatid exchange frequency in women who exposed to biomass in a village of Central Anatolia. Turkish Respir. J. 2001;2(2):26–28
  11. American Thoracic Society. Medical Section of the American Lung Association. Standardization of spirometry-1987 update. Am Rev Respir Dis 136 (1987) 1285–98.
  12. American Thoracic Society. Medical Section of the American Lung Association. Lung function testing: selection of reference values and interpretative strategies. Am Rev Respir Dis 144 (1991) 1202–18.
  13. Quanjer PH, Tammeling JE, Cotes JE, Pedersen OF, Peslin R, Yernault JC. Standardized lung function testing: lung volumes and forced ventilatory flows. Eur. Respir. J. 1993;6(Suppl. 16):5–40
  14. Cotes JE, Chin DJ, Quanjer PH, Roca J, Yernault JC. Standardization of measurement of transfer factor (diffusing capacity). Report working party standardization of lung function tests. European Community for Steel and Coal. Official Statement of European Respiratory Society. Eur. Respir. J. 1993;16(Suppl.):41–52
  15. Dirksen A, Friis M, Olesen KP, Skoovgaard LT, Sorensen K. Progress of emphysema in severe α-1-antitrypsine deficiency as assessed by annual CT. Acta Radiol. 1997;38:826–832
  16. Zagers H, Vrooman HA, Aartts NJM, Stolk J, Schultze Kool LJ, Dijkman JH, et al.  Assessment of the progression of emphysema by quantitative analysis of spirometrically gated computer tomography images. Invest. Radiol. 1996;31:761–767
  17. Stalk J, Dirksen A, Lugt VD, Hutsebaut J, Mathieu J, DeRee J, et al.  Repeatability of lung density measurements with low-dose computed tomography in subject with α-1-antitrypsin deficiency-associated emphysema. Invest. Radiol. 2001;11:648–651
  18. Cleary GJ, Blackburn CRB. Air pollution in native huts in the highlands of New Guinea. Arch. Environ. Health. 1968;17:785–794
  19. Dutt D, Srinivasa DK, Rotti SB, Sahai A, Konar D. Effect of indoor air pollution on respiratory system of women using different fuels for cooking in an urban slum of Pondicherry. Natl. Med. J. India. 1996;9:113–117
  20. Behera D, Jindal SK, Malhotra HS. Ventilatory function in non-smoking rural Indian women using different cooking fuels. Respiration. 1994;61:89–92
  21. Özbay B, Uzun K, Arslan H, Zehir İ. Functional and radiological impairment in women highly exposed to indoor biomass fuels. Respirology. 2001;6:255–258
  22. Scott J, Johnston I, Britton J. What causes cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis? A case-control study of environmental exposure to dust. Br. Med. J. 1990;301:1015–1017
  23. Lamers RJ, Kemerink GJ, Drent M, van Engelshoven JM. Reproducibility of spirometrically controlled CT lung densitometry in a clinical setting. Eur. Respir. J. 1998;11:942–945
  24. Desai SR, Hansel DM. Small airway disease: expiratory computed tomography comes of age. Clin. Radiol. 1997;52:332–337

PII: S0720-048X(04)00034-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2004.01.011

European Journal of Radiology
Volume 52, Issue 2 , Pages 192-199 , November 2004

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution