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Near-fatal status asthmaticus induced by nasal insufflation of cocaine
M Averbach1, K K Casey, E Frank
1Department of Medicine, Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune, NJ 07754, USA.
Southern Medical Journal
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
Asthma and cocaine abuse are both common. While cocaine has been associated with numerous pulmonary complications, only smoking cocaine has been clearly linked to the precipitation of life-threatening exacerbations of asthma. We report a case in which nasal insufflation of cocaine ("snorting") triggered a near-fatal asthmatic attack.