Cocaine
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Clinical Manifestations
Crack Lung
- A characteristic acute pulmonary syndrome following smoking of crack cocaine
- Fever, dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, and hemoptysis within 48 hours of crack cocaine inhalation
- Imaging shows diffuse bilateral alveolar infiltrates, interlobular septal thickening, peribronchial nodules, ground-glass opacities, and non-specific consolidation
- Can progress to hypoxemic respiratory failure
- Cocaine inhalation can also cause a chronic, subclinical diffuse alveolar hemorrhage
