title: A Man in His 20s With Diffuse Lung Opacities and Acute Respiratory Failure After Hookah Smoking.
abstract: A man in his 20s with no medical history presented with 2 days of progressively worsening shortness of breath accompanied by subjective fevers, chills, body aches, decreased appetite, night sweats, and cough producing nonbloody sputum. He denied childhood lung diseases, allergies, or a family history of lung disease. He did not smoke cigarettes but had smoked hookah in Saudi Arabia before moving to the United States 1 month before presentation and had restarted 2 days before the start of symptoms. He denied travel outside of the northeastern United States. He did not take medications, use illicit drugs, or engage in high-risk behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ.
authors.forename: Mohleen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.affiliation: Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Norton Community Hospital, Norton, VA.
authors.forename: Vishal
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Raj
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine/Allergy and Immunologic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ. Electronic address: bermanar@njms.rutgers.edu.
authors.forename: Andrew R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Berman
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011657:Pulmonary Eosinophilia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects*