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A Case Report of Secondary Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum Induced by Vaping

We present a rare case of vaping-induced spontaneous pneumomediastinum in a young healthy female. The patient presented to the emergency department with the chief complaint of acute onset chest pain. Imaging studies, chest X-ray, and computed tomography of the chest showed findings of pneumomediasti...

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Autores principales: Kartiko, Michael, Miller, Aisha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10027423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36949981
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35153
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description We present a rare case of vaping-induced spontaneous pneumomediastinum in a young healthy female. The patient presented to the emergency department with the chief complaint of acute onset chest pain. Imaging studies, chest X-ray, and computed tomography of the chest showed findings of pneumomediastinum. The patient was counseled on vaping cessation and discharged after 48 hours.
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spelling pubmed-100274232023-03-21 A Case Report of Secondary Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum Induced by Vaping Kartiko, Michael Miller, Aisha Cureus Internal Medicine We present a rare case of vaping-induced spontaneous pneumomediastinum in a young healthy female. The patient presented to the emergency department with the chief complaint of acute onset chest pain. Imaging studies, chest X-ray, and computed tomography of the chest showed findings of pneumomediastinum. The patient was counseled on vaping cessation and discharged after 48 hours. Cureus 2023-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10027423/ /pubmed/36949981 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35153 Text en Copyright © 2023, Kartiko et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A Case Report of Secondary Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum Induced by Vaping
title A Case Report of Secondary Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum Induced by Vaping
title_full A Case Report of Secondary Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum Induced by Vaping
title_fullStr A Case Report of Secondary Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum Induced by Vaping
title_full_unstemmed A Case Report of Secondary Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum Induced by Vaping
title_short A Case Report of Secondary Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum Induced by Vaping
title_sort case report of secondary spontaneous pneumomediastinum induced by vaping
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10027423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36949981
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35153
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