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The patient, who was a former coal miner, developed black lung disease. He was diagnosed with an abnormal condition of dust in the lungs or:
Medical Care. Treatment for both simple coal workerâs pneumoconiosis and complicated coal workerâs pneumoconiosis is symptomatic. Use oxygen as hypoxemia demands. No evidence supports the hypothesis that removing the miner from the mining environment arrests the disease once progression to progressive massive fibrosis has begun.