Particle analysis of surgical lung biopsies from deployed and non-deployed US service members during the Global War on Terrorism.

ABSTRACT: The role that inhaled particulate matter plays in the development of post-deployment lung disease among US service members deployed to Southwest Asia during the Global War on Terrorism has been difficult to define. There is a persistent gap in data addressing the relationship between relatively short-term (months to a few years) exposures to high levels of particulate matter during deployment and the subsequent development of adverse pulmonary outcomes. Surgical lung biopsies from deployed service members and veterans (DSMs) and non-deployed service members and veterans (NDSMs) who develop lung diseases can be analyzed to potentially identify residual deployment-specific particles and develop associations with pulmonary pathological diagnoses. We examined 52 surgical lung biopsies from 25

SUBMITTER: Hayden L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11008878 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature