%0 Journal Article
%T Pathology of vaping-associated lung injury
%J New England journal of medicine
%D 2019
%A Butt, Yasmeen M.
%A Smith, Maxwell L.
%A Tazelaar, Henry D.
%A Vaszar, Laszlo T.
%A Swanson, Karen L.
%A Cecchini, Matthew J.
%A Boland, Jennifer M.
%A Bois, Melanie C.
%A Boyum, James H.
%A Froemming, Adam T.
%A Khoor, Andras
%A Mira-Avendano, Isabel
%A Patel, Aiyub
%A Larsen, Brandon T.
%V ePub
%N ePub
%P ePub-ePub
%X <p>Despite the accumulating data on the clinical and imaging features of vaping-associated lung injury, its pathology is poorly understood. We reviewed lung biopsies from 17 patients (13 men; median age, 35 years [range, 19–67]), all of whom had a history of vaping (71% with marijuana or cannabis oils) and were clinically suspected to have vaping-associated lung injury. Presentation was acute or subacute in all cases, with bilateral pulmonary opacities; all but two patients presented in 2019. Eleven met the criteria for a “confirmed” diagnosis of vaping-related lung injury; the remaining six met the criteria for a “probable” designation. In all cases, histopathological findings showed patterns of acute lung injury, including acute fibrinous pneumonitis, diffuse alveolar damage, or organizing pneumonia, usually bronchiolocentric and accompanied by bronchiolitis ...</p> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Massachusetts Medical Society
%@ 0028-4793
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc1913069