Electrotonic-Cigarette or Vaping Product Use Associated Lung Injury: Diagnosis of Exclusion

Abstract

The first reports of lung injury attributable to vaping date back to 2012, but the ongoing outbreak of electrotonic-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI) began in 2019. It is a diagnosis of exclusion. In this case report, we describe a patient with history of excessive vaping for the last 3 weeks who was admitted to the intensive care unit for acute hypoxic respiratory failure. The patient was diagnosed with EVALI given the history of vaping in the setting of negative infectious work-up and radiographic imaging that showed lung opacities.

Keywords

• evali
• diagnosis of exclusion
• acute hypoxic respiratory failure
• lung opacities
• electronic cigarette
• vaping
• vaping associated lung injury
• ct scan
• eosinophilic pneumonia
• treatment