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Electronic Cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury in a Previously Healthy Young Male

Vaping (i.e., the use of electronic cigarettes) has been gaining popularity among people for the past few years, perhaps due to the misconception that its use is less harmful than traditional cigarettes. Although the long-term effects of these products are still unknown, it has been shown that they...

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Autores principales: Ismail, Abdel-Latif S, Imaduddeen, Tahir, Ibrahim, Wanis H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8545557/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34722048
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18269
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description Vaping (i.e., the use of electronic cigarettes) has been gaining popularity among people for the past few years, perhaps due to the misconception that its use is less harmful than traditional cigarettes. Although the long-term effects of these products are still unknown, it has been shown that they can be implicated in acute lung injury in healthy people. In 2019, an epidemic of severe acute lung injury was reported in the United States, and it was linked to vaping or electronic cigarette use and was referred to as e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI). Here, we present the first case of EVALI in the state of Qatar. 
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spelling pubmed-85455572021-10-28 Electronic Cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury in a Previously Healthy Young Male Ismail, Abdel-Latif S Imaduddeen, Tahir Ibrahim, Wanis H Cureus Internal Medicine Vaping (i.e., the use of electronic cigarettes) has been gaining popularity among people for the past few years, perhaps due to the misconception that its use is less harmful than traditional cigarettes. Although the long-term effects of these products are still unknown, it has been shown that they can be implicated in acute lung injury in healthy people. In 2019, an epidemic of severe acute lung injury was reported in the United States, and it was linked to vaping or electronic cigarette use and was referred to as e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI). Here, we present the first case of EVALI in the state of Qatar.  Cureus 2021-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8545557/ /pubmed/34722048 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18269 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ismail 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.
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Ismail, Abdel-Latif S
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title_full Electronic Cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury in a Previously Healthy Young Male
title_fullStr Electronic Cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury in a Previously Healthy Young Male
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title_short Electronic Cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury in a Previously Healthy Young Male
title_sort electronic cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury in a previously healthy young male
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8545557/
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