Candida Albicans Lung Abscess in an Illicit Drugs User With Hepatitis C Virus Chronic Infection

Illicit substances are widely used all over the world. Among them, crack cocaine results to be the most used drug for the fact that it can be taken in different ways, such as inhaled or intravenous. Pulmonary complications are well known in people snorting it, mostly due to contamination with other...

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Autores principales: Zippi, Maddalena, Toma, Antonella, Maccioni, Francesca, Pica, Roberta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7935243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33728135
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13117
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author Zippi, Maddalena
Toma, Antonella
Maccioni, Francesca
Pica, Roberta
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Maccioni, Francesca
Pica, Roberta
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description Illicit substances are widely used all over the world. Among them, crack cocaine results to be the most used drug for the fact that it can be taken in different ways, such as inhaled or intravenous. Pulmonary complications are well known in people snorting it, mostly due to contamination with other substances contained in the objects able to infuse the drug. Herein, we present a case of lung candida abscess related to nasal insufflation of cocaine in an abuser patient suffering from hepatitis C virus (HCV) and not immunocompromised.
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spelling pubmed-79352432021-03-15 Candida Albicans Lung Abscess in an Illicit Drugs User With Hepatitis C Virus Chronic Infection Zippi, Maddalena Toma, Antonella Maccioni, Francesca Pica, Roberta Cureus Gastroenterology Illicit substances are widely used all over the world. Among them, crack cocaine results to be the most used drug for the fact that it can be taken in different ways, such as inhaled or intravenous. Pulmonary complications are well known in people snorting it, mostly due to contamination with other substances contained in the objects able to infuse the drug. Herein, we present a case of lung candida abscess related to nasal insufflation of cocaine in an abuser patient suffering from hepatitis C virus (HCV) and not immunocompromised. Cureus 2021-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7935243/ /pubmed/33728135 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13117 Text en Copyright © 2021, Zippi 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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Zippi, Maddalena
Toma, Antonella
Maccioni, Francesca
Pica, Roberta
Candida Albicans Lung Abscess in an Illicit Drugs User With Hepatitis C Virus Chronic Infection
title Candida Albicans Lung Abscess in an Illicit Drugs User With Hepatitis C Virus Chronic Infection
title_full Candida Albicans Lung Abscess in an Illicit Drugs User With Hepatitis C Virus Chronic Infection
title_fullStr Candida Albicans Lung Abscess in an Illicit Drugs User With Hepatitis C Virus Chronic Infection
title_full_unstemmed Candida Albicans Lung Abscess in an Illicit Drugs User With Hepatitis C Virus Chronic Infection
title_short Candida Albicans Lung Abscess in an Illicit Drugs User With Hepatitis C Virus Chronic Infection
title_sort candida albicans lung abscess in an illicit drugs user with hepatitis c virus chronic infection
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7935243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33728135
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13117
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