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News media featured hospitalized lung vaping illness patients in narratives including the following: Dehydration from nausea, multifocal pneumonia, sepsis, acute respiratory failure with hypoxemia, and blood clots, necessitating a medically induced coma and removal of fluid from the lungs. [130] Vomiting, coughing up blood, and lipid pneumonia ...
Vaping-associated pulmonary injury (VAPI), [4] also known as vaping-associated lung injury (VALI) [1] or e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (E/VALI), [2] [a] is an umbrella term, [15] [16] used to describe lung diseases associated with the use of vaping products that can be severe and life-threatening. [3]
An outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) began in 2019 [150] among users of illegal, unregulated cannabis vaping products, [149] almost exclusively in the United States. [151]
The CDC is investigating a severe lung disease called EVALI in those who use e-cigarette devices. There have been dozens of deaths and more than 2,700 hospitalizations associated with the outbreak.
Popcorn Lung is a debilitating and irreversible respiratory disease which causes "scarring in tiny air sacs in the lungs that lead to excessive coughing and shortness of breath" similar to that ...
A Pennsylvania teenager developed a severe case of 'wet lung' just three weeks after she began smoking e-cigarettes, according to a case study published on Thursday.. The 18-year-old girl, whose ...
The rise in vaping is of great concern because the parts encompassing in greater cognitive activities including the prefrontal cortex of the brain continues to develop into the 20s. [1] Nicotine exposure during brain development may hamper growth of neurons and brain circuits, effecting brain architecture, chemistry, and neurobehavioral activity.
Dr. John E. Parker was working at a West Virginia hospital in 2015 when a 31-year-old female patient was admitted with acute respiratory problems.