Cannabis Butane Hash Oil Dabbing Induced Lung Injury Mimicking Atypical Pneumonia

“Dabbing” is the inhalation of concentrated marijuana, usually in butane solvent. This case report illustrates a previously healthy 25-year-old caucasian male with a 10-year history of cannabis butane hash oil (BHO) use. The patient presented with dyspnea and cough. The evaluation included a chest x...

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Autores principales: Stephens, Danica, Patel, Jinal K, Angelo, Debra, Frunzi, Johnathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7082782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32211266
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7033
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description “Dabbing” is the inhalation of concentrated marijuana, usually in butane solvent. This case report illustrates a previously healthy 25-year-old caucasian male with a 10-year history of cannabis butane hash oil (BHO) use. The patient presented with dyspnea and cough. The evaluation included a chest x-ray, basic laboratory investigations, computerized tomography angiogram of the chest and echocardiogram. Patient was diagnosed with acute lung injury mimicking atypical pneumonia. He was treated with steroids and had clinically improved and advised to stop dabbing. Further studies are needed to elucidate the full spectrum of the adverse effects of dabbing. 
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spelling pubmed-70827822020-03-24 Cannabis Butane Hash Oil Dabbing Induced Lung Injury Mimicking Atypical Pneumonia Stephens, Danica Patel, Jinal K Angelo, Debra Frunzi, Johnathan Cureus Internal Medicine “Dabbing” is the inhalation of concentrated marijuana, usually in butane solvent. This case report illustrates a previously healthy 25-year-old caucasian male with a 10-year history of cannabis butane hash oil (BHO) use. The patient presented with dyspnea and cough. The evaluation included a chest x-ray, basic laboratory investigations, computerized tomography angiogram of the chest and echocardiogram. Patient was diagnosed with acute lung injury mimicking atypical pneumonia. He was treated with steroids and had clinically improved and advised to stop dabbing. Further studies are needed to elucidate the full spectrum of the adverse effects of dabbing.  Cureus 2020-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7082782/ /pubmed/32211266 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7033 Text en Copyright © 2020, Stephens et al. http://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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Stephens, Danica
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title_short Cannabis Butane Hash Oil Dabbing Induced Lung Injury Mimicking Atypical Pneumonia
title_sort cannabis butane hash oil dabbing induced lung injury mimicking atypical pneumonia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7082782/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7033
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