A Severe Complication of Crack Cocaine Use
The present report describes a 48-year-old woman with a history of recurrent ‘crack’ cocaine use, who developed progressive shortness of breath over a period of years. Serial imaging revealed progressive interstitial fibrosis secondary to recurrent alveolar hemorrhage and inflammation from crack coc...
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| description | The present report describes a 48-year-old woman with a history of recurrent ‘crack’ cocaine use, who developed progressive shortness of breath over a period of years. Serial imaging revealed progressive interstitial fibrosis secondary to recurrent alveolar hemorrhage and inflammation from crack cocaine. The present case serves as a reminder of the numerous sequelae of crack cocaine use, highlighting one particularly severe outcome. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-922ab7d757ed42c88c2456aaa99811ed2025-02-03T06:46:26ZengWileyCanadian Respiratory Journal1198-22412015-01-01222777910.1155/2015/263969A Severe Complication of Crack Cocaine UseGokul Vidyasankar0Carolina Souza1Chi Lai2Sunita Mulpuru3Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaDepartment of Radiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaDepartment of Anatomic Pathology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaDivision of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaThe present report describes a 48-year-old woman with a history of recurrent ‘crack’ cocaine use, who developed progressive shortness of breath over a period of years. Serial imaging revealed progressive interstitial fibrosis secondary to recurrent alveolar hemorrhage and inflammation from crack cocaine. The present case serves as a reminder of the numerous sequelae of crack cocaine use, highlighting one particularly severe outcome.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/263969 |
| spellingShingle | Gokul Vidyasankar Carolina Souza Chi Lai Sunita Mulpuru A Severe Complication of Crack Cocaine Use Canadian Respiratory Journal |
| title | A Severe Complication of Crack Cocaine Use |
| title_full | A Severe Complication of Crack Cocaine Use |
| title_fullStr | A Severe Complication of Crack Cocaine Use |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Severe Complication of Crack Cocaine Use |
| title_short | A Severe Complication of Crack Cocaine Use |
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