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Medscape
26-06-2025
- Health
- Medscape
Counsel Patients on Vaping's Irreversible Lung Risks
This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hi, everyone. My name is Dr Chandrasekaran. I'm here today to talk to you about vaping. Vaping has become a global health epidemic affecting everyone from high schoolers all the way to adults. This has gained popularity in recent years, butwhat people don't know is that vaping has now been shown to be linked to irreversible lung damage. It has been linked to conditions such as bronchiolitis obliterans, which is narrowing and scarring of the small airways due to diacetyl, which is found in nicotine liquid in vapes. Also, vaping has been linked to lung collapse,which can then cause hospitalizations and require patients to have chest tubes, or EVALI, which is a significant, life-threatening disease that can leave patients on a ventilator. It's important for us to counsel our patients and to advise our patients that these risk factors do exist when using their vapes every day or even socially on only takes one time to try it to end up with any of these irreversible lung conditions.
Medscape
20-06-2025
- Health
- Medscape
Watch for These Lung Cancer Signs in Nonsmokers
This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hi, everyone. My name is Dr Chandrasekaran. Today I am here to talk to you about lung cancer. Lung cancer is on the rise. Its incidence is increasing in people who are nonsmokers. This is contrary to what we normally have been taught and what we believe. Adenocarcinoma, more specifically, the type of lung cancer, is now increasing in diagnoses. This is being found in patients that live in high industrial, air-polluted cities, specifically in East Asia, China, and India. This is also true in big cities here in the US, such as Los Angeles, in the Northeast, Miami, and Atlanta. This is also being found in people who have cancers within the family,more specifically, with germline mutations or other lung cancers. Things to watch out for in our patients who don't have a history of smoking could be abnormal lung imaging that continues on repeat scans, increased shortness of breath with no explanation, increasing dyspnea, coughing up blood, or other symptoms, such as weight loss or more fatigue with no other diagnoses. It's important to get these patients screened earlier and follow up with a pulmonary doctor to make sure that the diagnosis is caught early.
