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Acute Respiratory Failure of Unknown Etiology After Charcoal-Burning Suicide Attempt: Suspected Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis

We report a case of a 25-year-old man who presented to the emergency department with respiratory distress after attempting suicide using burning charcoal briquettes. Charcoal briquette suicide is a method of suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning through inhalation of carbon monoxide produced when cha...

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Autores principales: Kuwahara, Masaatsu, Otagaki, Hiroko, Imanaka, Hideaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10333054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37440818
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40238