Medicinal agents, beside occupational and environmental agents, remain one of the most
common causes for interstitial lung diseases (ILD). A major problem with ILD is the …

Cocaine can be responsible for many psychiatric and/or somatic disorders. The aim of this
systematic literature review of data was to expose relations between cocaine use and …

Damage to lungs may occur from systemic as well as inhalational exposure to various illegal
drugs of abuse. Aspiration pneumonia probably represents the most common pulmonary …

Infiltrative lung diseases, or more broadly diffuse parenchymal lung diseases, encompass a
wide and heterogeneous group of disease processes characterised by diffuse lung …

Study objective To evaluate BAL cells obtained from habitual users of alkaloidal (“crack”)
cocaine alone or in combination with tobacco, for evidence of cocaine-associated alveolar …

DISCUSSION Our patient presented with a nonproductive cough, wheezing, and patchy
scattered nodular ground glass infiltrates in the setting of crack cocaine usage. The short …

CONTEXT: Brazilian researchers have recently recognized a marked increase in the
number of people using abusable drugs and the consequences of this habit. It has become …

Smoked cocaine (crack cocaine) causes several forms of injury to the respiratory tract,
including asthma exacerbations, lung edema and hemorrhage, and nasal mucosal …

In France, cocaine is the second most commonly illicit drug used after cannabis. Cocaine,
mainly smoked in the form of crack, can be responsible for a wide range of respiratory …

Drug abuse is a growing problem in industrialized countries, opening the way to new
diseases of the respiratory tract. It has been demonstrated that regular inhalation of …