Teenager's lung photo of a one-month e-cigarette 'Shock', like shattered glass
Jul 04, 2024
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Medical media Mediscape introduced a case of lung injury in a 19-year-old female patient.
The woman visited the emergency room after showing symptoms such as difficulty breathing, chills, cough, and high fever for a week,
The medical team confirmed that chest CT scans showed 'ground glass opacity (GGO)' in the lungs and initially diagnosed bacterial pneumonia.
Liver free shading or hepatic free nodules refer to areas on chest CT that appear cloudy in the lungs. It originated from the fact that the surface turns blurry when the transparent glass is ground using sand or the like is called 'gan glass'.
This is usually observed when damage is caused by pneumonia or other respiratory diseases.
The medical staff gave the patient antibiotic treatment for five days, but when the symptoms did not improve, they wondered.
Then, only after the patient said he had used his boyfriend's e-cigarette for the past month, doctors diagnosed it as 'E-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI)'.
EVALI refers to acute respiratory disease caused by toxic effects of chemicals used in e-cigarettes.
It is similar to atypical viral disease, and dyspnea, cough, chest pain, and fever are the most common symptoms.
Medics advised patients diagnosed with EVALI to administer steroids and quit vaping.
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