Foreign body aspiration pneumonia in an intravenous drug user

Heroin use is associated with several well described respiratory complications, including noncardiogenic pulmonary edema, aspiration pneumonitis, acute respiratory distress syndrome,pneumonia, lung abscess, septic pulmonary emboli, and atelectasis. We describe an interesting case of a young female p...

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Autores principales: Bhaskar, Balu, Andelkovic, Vladimir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3299121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22412782
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.93075
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description Heroin use is associated with several well described respiratory complications, including noncardiogenic pulmonary edema, aspiration pneumonitis, acute respiratory distress syndrome,pneumonia, lung abscess, septic pulmonary emboli, and atelectasis. We describe an interesting case of a young female patient, an intravenous heroin user who presented with progressive dyspnea, hypoxia, and left lung consolidation.
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spelling pubmed-32991212012-03-12 Foreign body aspiration pneumonia in an intravenous drug user Bhaskar, Balu Andelkovic, Vladimir Saudi J Anaesth Case Report Heroin use is associated with several well described respiratory complications, including noncardiogenic pulmonary edema, aspiration pneumonitis, acute respiratory distress syndrome,pneumonia, lung abscess, septic pulmonary emboli, and atelectasis. We describe an interesting case of a young female patient, an intravenous heroin user who presented with progressive dyspnea, hypoxia, and left lung consolidation. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3299121/ /pubmed/22412782 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.93075 Text en Copyright: © Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Foreign body aspiration pneumonia in an intravenous drug user
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3299121/
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