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Successful lung transplantation for talcosis secondary to intravenous abuse of oral drug

Talcosis due to intravenous injection of oral drugs can cause severe pulmonary disease with progressive dyspnea even when drug use is discontinued. We describe a 54-year-old woman with severe emphysema who underwent left lung transplantation. The patient had a remote history of intravenous injection...

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Autores principales: Shlomi, Dekel, Shitrit, David, Bendayan, Daniele, Sahar, Gidon, Shechtman, Yitshak, Kramer, Mordechai R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2629966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18686743