Pulmonary effects of IV injection of crushed oral tablets: "Excipient lung disease"

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 203, Issue 5, 2014, Pages W506-W515

  Nguyen, Vicky T ^a   Chan, Elaine S ^b,c   Chou, Shinn Huey S ^a   Godwin, J David ^a   Fligner, Corinne L ^b   Schmidt, Rodney A ^b   Pipavath, Sudhakar N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Centrilobular nodules; Drug abuse; Excipient; Microcrystalline cellulose; Oral tablet; Pulmonary arterial hypertension; Talc

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; CROSPOVIDONE; METHYLPHENIDATE; MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE; STARCH; TALC; EXCIPIENT;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTERY DISEASE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COR PULMONALE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; EXCIPIENT LUNG DISEASE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PLEXOGENIC ARTERIOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULMONARY CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMATOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY DECOMPENSATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETINOPATHY; REVIEW; RITALIN LUNG; SUDDEN DEATH; TABLET FORMULATION; TALC RETINOPATHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXCIPIENTS; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 84924925840     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.14.12582     Document Type: Review

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