"Crack lung and heart" presenting after chemotherapy in a 65-year-old man with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Crack cocaine can cause a variety of pulmonary and cardiac complications. Pulmonary findings in a 65- year-old man with non-Hodgkin lymphoma who presented with shortness of breath not resolving with antibiotics are presented here. The usual manifestation of "crack lung" in an unusual clinical circumstance underlines the importance of a clinical history in such cases. The finding of "crack lung" preceded the diagnosis of probable "crack heart." No other similar published case reports could be identified in the literature.
Alvarez
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Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario. galvarez@ohri.ca
van der Jagt
R H C
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