Eosinophilic pneumonia associated with heroin inhalation: A case report

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 120, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 178-180

  Tsapas, Apostolos ^a,b   Paletas, Konstantinos ^a   Vlachaki, Efthymia ^a   Bekiari, Eleni ^a   Spanos, Constantine ^a   Economidis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b 1st Department of Surgery ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute eosinophilic pneumonia; Dyspnea; Heroin; Opiate abuse; Pulmonary eosinophilia

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; DIAMORPHINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ROXITHROMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEVER; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURISY; REMISSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; EOSINOPHILS; HEROIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NARCOTICS; PULMONARY EOSINOPHILIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41749108223     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-008-0938-0     Document Type: Article

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