Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia Due to Vaping-Associated Lung Injury

Wolf, Molly; Richards, Jeremy

doi:10.2478/jccm-2020-0037

Abstract

A case is described of a 29-year-old female who presented with acute hypoxic respiratory failure due to acute eosinophilic pneumonia, associated with the use of electronic cigarettes to vape tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), together with the contemporary clinical understanding of the syndrome of electronic-cigarette associated lung injury (EVALI). Attention is drawn to acute eosinophilic pneumonia as a potential consequence of vaping-associated lung injury to understand the diagnostic evaluations and therapeutic interventions for acute eosinophilic pneumonia associated with vaping THC.

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Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia Due to Vaping-Associated Lung Injury

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