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Low‐voltage electricity‐induced lung injury
We report a case of bilateral pulmonary infiltrates and haemoptysis following low‐voltage electricity exposure in an agricultural worker. A 58‐year‐old man standing in water reached for an electric watering machine and sustained an exposure to 220 V circuit for an uncertain duration. The electricity...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5756716/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29321936 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.292 |
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author | Truong, Thai Le, Thuong Vu Smith, David L. Kantrow, Stephen P. Tran, Van Ngoc |
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description | We report a case of bilateral pulmonary infiltrates and haemoptysis following low‐voltage electricity exposure in an agricultural worker. A 58‐year‐old man standing in water reached for an electric watering machine and sustained an exposure to 220 V circuit for an uncertain duration. The electricity was turned off by another worker, and the patient was asymptomatic for the next 10 h until he developed haemoptysis. A chest radiograph demonstrated bilateral infiltrates, and chest computed tomography (CT) revealed ground‐glass opacities with interstitial thickening. Evaluations, including electrocardiogram, serum troponin, N‐terminal pro‐B‐type natriuretic peptide (NT‐pro BNP), coagulation studies, and echocardiogram, found no abnormality. The patient was treated for suspected electricity‐induced lung injury and bleeding with tranexamic acid and for rhabdomyolysis with volume resuscitation. He recovered with complete resolution of chest radiograph abnormalities by Day 7. This is the first reported case of bilateral lung oedema and/or injury after electricity exposure without cardiac arrest. |
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spelling | pubmed-57567162018-01-10 Low‐voltage electricity‐induced lung injury Truong, Thai Le, Thuong Vu Smith, David L. Kantrow, Stephen P. Tran, Van Ngoc Respirol Case Rep Case Reports We report a case of bilateral pulmonary infiltrates and haemoptysis following low‐voltage electricity exposure in an agricultural worker. A 58‐year‐old man standing in water reached for an electric watering machine and sustained an exposure to 220 V circuit for an uncertain duration. The electricity was turned off by another worker, and the patient was asymptomatic for the next 10 h until he developed haemoptysis. A chest radiograph demonstrated bilateral infiltrates, and chest computed tomography (CT) revealed ground‐glass opacities with interstitial thickening. Evaluations, including electrocardiogram, serum troponin, N‐terminal pro‐B‐type natriuretic peptide (NT‐pro BNP), coagulation studies, and echocardiogram, found no abnormality. The patient was treated for suspected electricity‐induced lung injury and bleeding with tranexamic acid and for rhabdomyolysis with volume resuscitation. He recovered with complete resolution of chest radiograph abnormalities by Day 7. This is the first reported case of bilateral lung oedema and/or injury after electricity exposure without cardiac arrest. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2017-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5756716/ /pubmed/29321936 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.292 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Respirology Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | Case Reports Truong, Thai Le, Thuong Vu Smith, David L. Kantrow, Stephen P. Tran, Van Ngoc Low‐voltage electricity‐induced lung injury |
title | Low‐voltage electricity‐induced lung injury |
title_full | Low‐voltage electricity‐induced lung injury |
title_fullStr | Low‐voltage electricity‐induced lung injury |
title_full_unstemmed | Low‐voltage electricity‐induced lung injury |
title_short | Low‐voltage electricity‐induced lung injury |
title_sort | low‐voltage electricity‐induced lung injury |
topic | Case Reports |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5756716/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29321936 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.292 |
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