Lung disease associated with occupational styrene exposure. 2018

Keith C Meyer, and Basant Sharma, and Brent Kaufmann, and Amanda Kupper, and Michael Hodgson
Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.

Despite reports of pulmonary toxicity due to styrene, guidelines on acceptable styrene exposure levels have been based on risk of cancer and central nervous system and liver toxicity and not on respiratory effects. Many reports have linked exposure to styrene vapor in occupational settings to various forms of non-malignant pulmonary disorders including bronchiolitis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and occupational asthma. We report two cases in which the same tasks performed in a single workplace resulted in exposure to styrene vapor with subsequent development of acute respiratory symptoms associated with impaired gas exchange and imaging and histopathologic findings consistent with bronchiolitis and organizing pneumonia. Both patients gradually recovered once their workplace exposure to styrene was terminated. Clinicians, employers, and insurers should be aware of the potential for pulmonary toxicity from exposure to styrene.

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