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Thomas Kraus
Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine
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Experimental exposure of healthy subjects with emissions from a gas metal arc welding process—part II: biomonitoring of chromium and nickel
The objective of this study was to investigate whether there is a relationship between the external exposure dose of chromium and nickel caused by a metal active gas welding process with a solid high-alloyed s...
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Longitudinal evidence for the association between work-related physical exposures and neck and/or shoulder complaints: a systematic review
Most existing reviews focus on evidence for the association between neck and/or shoulder complaints and physical exposures at the workplace gathered from cross-sectional studies. In comparison, this review sum...
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Biological effect markers in exhaled breath condensate and biomonitoring in welders: impact of smoking and protection equipment
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of welding as well as the impact of smoking and protection measures on biological effect markers in exhaled breath condensate. Additionally, biomonitor...
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Open AccessRetrospective exposure assessment to airborne asbestos among power industry workers
A method of individually assessing former exposure to asbestos fibres is a precondition of risk-differentiated health surveillance. The main aims of our study were to assess former levels of airborne asbestos ...
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Inter-reader variability in chest radiography and HRCT for the early detection of asbestos-related lung and pleural abnormalities in a cohort of 636 asbestos-exposed subjects
To compare inter-reader variability of chest X-ray and high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scans of formerly asbestos-exposed employees over a 4-year period.
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Open AccessAnalysing the causes of chronic cough: relation to diesel exhaust, ozone, nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides and other environmental factors
Air pollution remains a leading cause of many respiratory diseases including chronic cough. Although episodes of incidental, dramatic air pollution are relatively rare, current levels of exposure of pollutants...
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Open AccessMethod optimization and validation for the simultaneous determination of arachidonic acid metabolites in exhaled breath condensate by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry
Determinations of inflammatory markers in exhaled breath condensate were used to assess airway inflammation. The most applied method for this kind of determination is enzyme immunoassay. For research purposes ...
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Open AccessAluminosis – Detection of an almost forgotten disease with HRCT
The aim of this study was to investigate whether it is possible to detect high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) findings in aluminium powder workers, which are consistent with early stages of aluminosis.
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Coding CT-Classification in Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease (OERD)
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Biomonitoring of nickel and chromium in human pulmonary tissue
Nickel (Ni) and chromium (Cr) and some of its compounds may be able to induce cancer in the lungs as well as in the nose and paranasal sinuses after occupational exposure. Latency periods amount to 20 years an...
