Caplan's syndrome

A form of coal-worker's PNEUMOCONIOSIS in which progressive FIBROSIS of the lungs, in the form of large nodules, is associated with RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. (Anthony Caplan, 1907–76, English physician).

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Mr Brown had heard how the 92-yearold former coal miner and army veteran had died at Wansbeck hospital in May 2009, having suffered pneumonia in his lungs and Caplan's syndrome, a combination of rheumatoid arthritis and pneumoconiosis - a lung disease suffered by miners.

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Mr Brown had heard how the 92-year-old former coal miner and Army veteran had died at Wansbeck hospital in May 2009, having suffered pneumonia in his lungs and Caplan's syndrome, a combination of rheumatoid arthritis and pneumoconiosis - a lung disease suffered by miners.

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Albert Frederick Reed, 87, died at Rookwood Hospital on March 1, 2005, from Caplan's Syndrome, after he worked for eight years at the coal face in Hirwaun.

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