Abstract

GALAN DAVILA, Antonia et al. Chronic beryllium disease, the disease hidden under some sarcoidosis. Rev Asoc Esp Espec Med Trab [online]. 2020, vol.29, n.1, pp.70-74.  Epub June 01, 2020. ISSN 3020-1160.

Chronic beryllium disease (CDB) is an occupational retarded hypersensitivity disease elicited by beryllium exposure. The number of exposed workers has increased in the last years. (in the USA has risen from 30,000 in the 1970s to 200,000 thirty years later)1. Cross-sectional studies of exposed workers in various industries have found that the prevalence of this illness ranged from 0.0 to 7.8%2. In this context, it is remarkable that CBD is only rarely diagnosed, probably because many of them are misdiagnosed as sarcoidosis.

Keywords : Beryllium; Chronic beryllium disease; Sarcoidosis.

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