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After a progressive improvement, he recovered and was discharged after 10 days with normal biochemistry and CT scan. He was treated symptomatically for 72 hours, with nasal high-flowoxygen and steroids. He was afebrile, and blood cultures for bacterial/ viral infection were negative.

The clinical picture raised the diagnostic suspicion of crack- lung syndrome (denied by the patient). Chest X-ray and computerised tomography (CT) scan showed a mediastinal widening and bilateral parenchymal ground- glass opacity, mostly with bilateral near-hilum distribution. Blood biochemistry was normal, except for white blood cell count of 12,710/mL and PCR 48mg/L. On admission, arterial blood gases (ABG) showed hypoxia (PaO2 56mmHg, oxygen saturations 89% on room air). Case report A 20-year-old male was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with worsening dyspnea that appeared 48 hours after snorting a drug of abuse, reported as a synthetic opioid. We describe a crack- lung-like syndrome in a case of analytically confirmed new synthetic opioid (NSO) consumption. It is characterized by acute dyspnea and diffuse ground- glass opacities.

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ABSTRACT Objective: Crack- lung is an acute pulmonary syndrome occurring within 48 hours after crack ( cocaine free-base) smoking.

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