A Rare Case of Vaping-Induced Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum

Vaping is the process of inhaling an aerosol produced by heating a liquid or wax containing substances such as nicotine, cannabinoids (e.g., tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol), flavoring, and additives (e.g., glycerol, propylene glycol). The presence of air or gas in the mediastinum is pneumomediast...

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Autores principales: Adhikari, Ramesh, Manduva, Deepika, Malayala, Srikrishna V, Singh, Romil, Jain, Nitesh K, Deepika, Keerti, Koritala, Thoyaja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8435398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34532191
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17166
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author Adhikari, Ramesh
Manduva, Deepika
Malayala, Srikrishna V
Singh, Romil
Jain, Nitesh K
Deepika, Keerti
Koritala, Thoyaja
author_facet Adhikari, Ramesh
Manduva, Deepika
Malayala, Srikrishna V
Singh, Romil
Jain, Nitesh K
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description Vaping is the process of inhaling an aerosol produced by heating a liquid or wax containing substances such as nicotine, cannabinoids (e.g., tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol), flavoring, and additives (e.g., glycerol, propylene glycol). The presence of air or gas in the mediastinum is pneumomediastinum. We present a rare case of vaping-induced spontaneous pneumomediastinum. A young 20-year-old female patient with a history of vaping and no past medical history presented with acute chest pain to an emergency room. The urine drug screen was positive for cannabinoids. Imaging studies - chest x-ray and computed tomography of the chest - showed pneumomediastinum. The patient was discharged after a day of observation and counseling to quit vaping.
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spelling pubmed-84353982021-09-15 A Rare Case of Vaping-Induced Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum Adhikari, Ramesh Manduva, Deepika Malayala, Srikrishna V Singh, Romil Jain, Nitesh K Deepika, Keerti Koritala, Thoyaja Cureus Internal Medicine Vaping is the process of inhaling an aerosol produced by heating a liquid or wax containing substances such as nicotine, cannabinoids (e.g., tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol), flavoring, and additives (e.g., glycerol, propylene glycol). The presence of air or gas in the mediastinum is pneumomediastinum. We present a rare case of vaping-induced spontaneous pneumomediastinum. A young 20-year-old female patient with a history of vaping and no past medical history presented with acute chest pain to an emergency room. The urine drug screen was positive for cannabinoids. Imaging studies - chest x-ray and computed tomography of the chest - showed pneumomediastinum. The patient was discharged after a day of observation and counseling to quit vaping. Cureus 2021-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8435398/ /pubmed/34532191 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17166 Text en Copyright © 2021, Adhikari et al. https://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.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Adhikari, Ramesh
Manduva, Deepika
Malayala, Srikrishna V
Singh, Romil
Jain, Nitesh K
Deepika, Keerti
Koritala, Thoyaja
A Rare Case of Vaping-Induced Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum
title A Rare Case of Vaping-Induced Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum
title_full A Rare Case of Vaping-Induced Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Vaping-Induced Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Vaping-Induced Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum
title_short A Rare Case of Vaping-Induced Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum
title_sort rare case of vaping-induced spontaneous pneumomediastinum
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8435398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34532191
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17166
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