OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RENAL DISEASE

摘要: Occupational renal diseases provide models for understanding environmental diseases. Kidney damage in a few workers induced by heavy exposure to identifiable toxins indicates what expect among the large population exposed low levels of dispersed larger environment. and present unique opportunity primary prevention as well diagnostic challenge long latency multifactorial etiology. The occupational that cause chronic disease include metals (Pb, Cd, Hg, As, Cr, U), organic compounds sometimes referred solvents, silica, beryllium. Toxins encountered medicinal agents such germanium, gold, aluminum will not be considered. This review update major contributions subject which have appeared over past half decade.