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ORPHA:2302Disease
Also called Asbestosis
What it is
A rare pneumoconiosis caused by exposure to asbestos particles. Symptoms may appear many years after exposure and include progressive dyspnea on exertion, dry cough, chest pain, tightness, inspiratory crackles, clubbing of the fingers. Later complications include mesothelioma and lung cancers.
Key facts
- Age of onset
- All ages
- Classified as
- Disease
Signs and symptoms
Common30–79%
15- Abnormality of the respiratory system
- Abnormal pulmonary interstitial morphology
- Decreased DLCO
- Diffuse reticular or finely nodular infiltrations
- Dyspnea
- Exercise intolerance
- Exertional dyspnea
- Late inspiratory crackles
- Nonproductive cough
- Oxygen desaturation on exertion
- Pleural thickening
- Reduced forced vital capacity
- Reduced vital capacity
- Restrictive ventilatory defect
- Subpleural honeycombing
Sometimes5–29%
14- Abnormal sputum
- Chest pain
- Chest tightness
- Clubbing of fingers
- Cor pulmonale
- Cyanosis
- Ground-glass opacification on pulmonary HRCT
- Hepatojugular reflux
and 6 more in this range
These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.
ICD-10 codes
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
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