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Second and fifth grade schoolchildren living within 19 km of a 1400 megawatt coal-fired power plant were followed-up. The children were first studied in 1980, before the power plant went into operation, and in 1983 after two units were operating. They performed pulmonary function tests (PFT), and their parents filled out American Thoracic Society-National Heart and Lung Institute health questionnaires. In the younger cohort, respiratory symptoms and pneumonia and measles were more common in 1983 than in 1980, while in the older cohort pneumonia and measles showed higher prevalence in 1983 but most respiratory symptoms became less common. Temporal changes in prevalence of respiratory symptoms and diseases and annual increases in PFT within three communities in the region with different expected levels of pollution were analyzed. It appears that effects of age, epidemics, and background variables rather than environmental pollution are responsible for the observed differences.
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PMID:Longitudinal study of respiratory conditions among schoolchildren in Israel: interim report of an epidemiological monitoring program in the vicinity of a new coal-fired power plant. 337 56

We report a case of febrile ulceronecrotic Mucha-Habermann disease (FUMHD) in a 12-year-old boy. After 1 week of typical cutaneous appearance of pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta (PLEVA), he was given a percutaneous injection of measles virus vaccine, and then extensive polymorphous, papular, and ulcerohemorrhagic skin lesions developed along with intermittent high temperature, hepatic dysfunction, and hypoalbuminemia. Thoracic CT scan showed parenchymal nodular infiltration at the tip of vascular structures. Skin biopsy showed a combination of the classic features of PLEVA and an allergic vasculitis. We treated him with prednisolone and methotrexate (MTX) successfully. The evolution in our patient suggests that FUMHD may have been triggered by virus vaccination. We also emphasize that FUMHD in children may be successfully treated with a combination of systemic MTX and high-dose corticosteroids.
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PMID:Febrile ulceronecrotic Mucha-Habermann's disease with pulmonary involvement. 2060 48