Scottsdale, AZ - (KROC-AM News) - A new study by Mayo Clinic has found that lung injuries from vaping most likely are caused by direct toxicity or tissue damage from noxious chemical fumes. The early-stagestudyis the first to examine a group of biopsies from patients with lung injury due...
Though the cytological appearances varied slightly from recent reports of acute presentation, the resolution on chest radiograph and presence of a significant proportion of lipid-laden macrophages were considered to represent a resolving vaping associated lung injury. Following cessation of all vaping ...
Researchers reviewed lung biopsies from 17 patients, all of whom had vaped and were suspected to have vaping-associated lung injury. The study was the first to examine a group of biopsies from patients with lung injury due to vaping. Researchers found no evidence of tissue injury caused...
The CDC is also investigating unconfirmed cases in other states including New York, Indiana, and Utah.1 From 18 June to 15 August, 14 states reported 94 cases of severe lung injury associated with vaping. Thirty cases occurred in the upper Midwest state of Wisconsin, and nearby Illinois ...
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM)- Dallas County is home to the youngest person in the country so far to die of a e-cigarette or vaping-related lung injury. The 15-year-old died on New Year's Eve and had an underlying chronic medical condition. ...
Vaping has increased in popularity, particularly among middle school– and high school–aged students, since its entrance into the U.S. consumer market. Consequently, the incidence of vaping-associated lung injury has become more common. Many inhaled environmental agents have been known to cause acu...
NEW ORLEANS — As the number of cases of lung injury associated with electronic cigarette use, or vaping, continues to grow, pulmonologists and public health officials are shining a spotlight on the disease, its presentation and ongoing efforts to t
Chest X-ray image of patient with lung injury due to vaping. Credit: UC Regents Vaping-related lung injury andCOVID-19’s shared symptoms can be confusing. A UC Davis Health pediatric team presented a powerful case series of three teenagers who had unexplained breathing problems during the CO...
Although the popcorn workers who were diagnosed with obliterative bronchiolitis had severe and irreversible lung damage, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH, an agency within the CDC) found that the workers at the factory showed aspectrum of injuryto the lungs probably ca...
A total of 34 deaths were reported in patients with e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury, according to the CDC. "These new insights can help bring us a step closer to identifying the cause or causes of this outbreak," said CDC director Robert R. Redfield. ...