E-cigarettes: Out of the frying pan into the fire?

Electronic nicotine delivery systems were developed over a decade ago to simulate the experience of smoking, although with a lower exposure to toxins than in conventional smoking. However, they have their own unique profile of side effects, some of which can be life threatening. We report the case o...

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Autores principales: Venkatnarayan, Kavitha, Rajamuri, Nithin Kumar Reddy, Krishnaswamy, Uma Maheswari, Devaraj, Uma, Ramachandran, Priya, Veluthat, Chitra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7507917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32643642
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_11_20
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author Venkatnarayan, Kavitha
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description Electronic nicotine delivery systems were developed over a decade ago to simulate the experience of smoking, although with a lower exposure to toxins than in conventional smoking. However, they have their own unique profile of side effects, some of which can be life threatening. We report the case of a young male, who in a desperate bid to de-addict himself from smoking developed a serious adverse effect related to the e-cigarettes.
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spelling pubmed-75079172020-10-02 E-cigarettes: Out of the frying pan into the fire? Venkatnarayan, Kavitha Rajamuri, Nithin Kumar Reddy Krishnaswamy, Uma Maheswari Devaraj, Uma Ramachandran, Priya Veluthat, Chitra Lung India Case Report Electronic nicotine delivery systems were developed over a decade ago to simulate the experience of smoking, although with a lower exposure to toxins than in conventional smoking. However, they have their own unique profile of side effects, some of which can be life threatening. We report the case of a young male, who in a desperate bid to de-addict himself from smoking developed a serious adverse effect related to the e-cigarettes. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7507917/ /pubmed/32643642 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_11_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Chest Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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