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An uncommon mimic of an acute asthma exacerbation
David Zaas1, Malcolm Brock, Stephen Yang
1Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Chest
|May 15, 2002
Abstract:
Foreign body aspiration in adults has a variety of clinical presentations and often goes unrecognized. We describe the case of a patient who experienced crack cocaine aspiration and presented with symptoms of an acute asthma exacerbation requiring mechanical ventilation until the eventual diagnosis and bronchoscopic removal of the foreign body.