Electric Cigarette-related Lung Injury and Cardiovascular Insult

Overview

Journal BMJ Case Rep

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2021 Mar 6

PMID 33674290

Citations 5

Authors

Roxana Amirahmadi

James Childress

Sonika Patel

Lee-Ann Wagner

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Abstract

The cardiovascular effects of electronic cigarette use are unknown. Here we present a case describing a young, previously healthy patient without prior cardiopulmonary comorbidities who developed severe, acute cardiac dysfunction in the setting of e-cigarette use, in addition to the more commonly encountered respiratory symptoms. While pulmonary manifestations are characteristic of e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI), the acute and reversible cardiomyopathy seen here has not been previously described in association with either EVALI or e-cigarette use.

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