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1 gentlemen had to asbestos, it can affect the
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He went to work over around 25th Street at
2 chromosomes of these cells and cause it to grow in a
2 Harford Road at Foreign Motors and eventually moved up
3 malignant fashion.
3 to around the Bel Air Road, and he had occupational
4 What happens, ladies and gentlemen, with
4 exposure to asbestos when he was working on brakes and
5 mesothelioma is that this lining that was once there
5 clutches.
6 to protect and to ensure that the lung was safe and
6 And you will see that from the product
7 that you could breathe correctly and saving your
7 identification testimony, you will see it in his
8 abdominal organs, becomes malignant, and as it becomes 8 videotape deposition and also in his medical records
9 malignant, it encases the lung, and as it encases the
9 because there is one very important thing about
10 lung, it grows diffusely, and as it grows diffusely.
10 mesothelioma, among other things, it is a signal
11 it continues to grow around the lung and encases it to
11 tumor.
12 the point where it suffocates the lung and causes an
12
When you see mesothelioma, the doctors look
13 inability to breathe on the part of the individual and
13 for asbestos exposure because it is linked
14 actually causes suffocation.
14 inextricably with asbestos exposure.
15 That is what happened in these cases, in Mr. 15 By the way, Mr. Grewe and his wife had six
16 Grewe's case it was a pleural mesothelioma.
16 children, 22 grandchildren. Mr. Grewe got to see 21
17 It so affected his lung that by May of 1993
17 of them. He didn't see the last one. He had died
18 over two-thirds of it was gone. It was there, but it
18 before then.
19 was completely encased in a tumor rind, and this one
19
In 1992 Mr. Grewe was helping one of his
20 thing that is different is that this material here
20 friends over the weekend and he came back after
21 that I am using is very soft, but the material, the
21 helping his friend on a Monday and he was very short
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1 tumor rind becomes very hard and almost encases the 1 of breath and he felt like he had a splashing feeling
2 organ in a concrete fashion to the point of
2 in his chest.
3 suffocation.
3 You see, the thing about mesothelioma is
4 The same thing happens in the abdominal 4 when it encases that lung, when it encases the lung
5 cavity around the intestines and the other organs that 5 which is a dynamic organ, it has to move. It shuts
6 lie in the abdominal cavity and that is what happened 6 down the ability of the lungs, blood, and lymphatics
7 in Mr. Vandergucht's case.
7 to work; and it causes these pleural effusions which
8 Now, I would like to talk to you
8 are large collections of fluid that have to be tapped,
9 specifically about these cases.
9 that have to be drained.
10 The first case I want to talk to you about 10 Mr. Grewe went to North Arundel Hospital to
11 is Mr. Grewe.
11 the emergency room, and he complained of increasing
12
Mr. Grewe was bom in 1937. He was bom
12 pain and deep breath lying on his left side.
13 over in the Westport area of town.
13 There was a chest X-ray taken in October of
14
He met his wife in about 1957. They were
14 '92. This isn't Mr. Grewe's X-ray. This isn't
15 both around the age of 20 and they got married. They 15 anyone's chest X-ray from this case.
16 lived in the Westport area until about 1975, and they 16
It is just a standard chest X-ray that
17 moved up into the Lansdowne area.
17 doctors use to compare films of individuals when they
18
The one thing that is important also in 1957
18 don't look normal.
19 is that Mr. Grewe went to work for an automotive
19
This is what a normal one looks like.
20 maintenance facility. He was an automotive mechanic 20
This is a picture of Mr. Grewe's chest X-ray
21 from 1957 to 1992.
21 when it was taken in October of 1992.
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