A direct adverse effect of smoking

Smoking has been accounted for numerous adverse effects. We report a direct effect of smoking in a 73-year-old patient, a heavy smoker who presented to the emergency department with a 48-h history of productive cough and fever. Chest x-ray and chest CT revealed right lung infiltrates; however, they...

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Autores principales: Kyriakopoulos, Christos, Gogali, Athena, Chronis, Christos, Kostikas, Konstantinos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8349038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34401278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101438
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description Smoking has been accounted for numerous adverse effects. We report a direct effect of smoking in a 73-year-old patient, a heavy smoker who presented to the emergency department with a 48-h history of productive cough and fever. Chest x-ray and chest CT revealed right lung infiltrates; however, they were not suggestive of the diagnosis, which was established through flexible bronchoscopy. The specific procedure concurrently contributed to the treatment of the patient.
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spelling pubmed-83490382021-08-15 A direct adverse effect of smoking Kyriakopoulos, Christos Gogali, Athena Chronis, Christos Kostikas, Konstantinos Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Smoking has been accounted for numerous adverse effects. We report a direct effect of smoking in a 73-year-old patient, a heavy smoker who presented to the emergency department with a 48-h history of productive cough and fever. Chest x-ray and chest CT revealed right lung infiltrates; however, they were not suggestive of the diagnosis, which was established through flexible bronchoscopy. The specific procedure concurrently contributed to the treatment of the patient. Elsevier 2021-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8349038/ /pubmed/34401278 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101438 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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