An Acute Case of Exogenous Lipoid Pneumonia Which Developed in Tent Sauna
Yamanaka M, Nishiyama Y, Fujishima N, Yokoyama A, Komiya K
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 3 citations
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- Design
- Case report (indexed by PubMed)
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- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2025-05-21 · Intern Med · vol. 64 · issue 23 · pp. 3419–3423
- Publisher
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- Cited
- 5 citations · more than 93% of similar papers · 3.4× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 22 works
- Access
- Open access (free to publish) · CC-BY-NC-ND
- Research areas
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Poisoning and overdose treatments
- Keywords
- Medicine, Pneumonia, Intensive care medicine, Internal medicine
- MeSH
- humans, pneumonia, lipid, acute disease, steam bath, kerosene
5 authors
From JP
- Marimu YamanakaOita University
- Yoshiki NisiyamaOita University
- Nobuhiro FujishimaOita University
- Atsushi YokoyamaOita University
- Kosaku KomiyaOita University
Abstract
The aspiration or inhalation of lipid substances can cause lung injury, including chemical pneumonitis and exogenous lipoid pneumonia. We herein report a case of acute lung injury caused by kerosene inhalation in a tent sauna. A patient developed dyspnea with respiratory failure two hours after igniting a wood-burning stove with kerosene. High-resolution computed tomography revealed widespread ground-glass opacities, and bronchoalveolar lavage revealed lipid-laden macrophages. Systemic corticosteroid treatment led to a rapid improvement. Although kerosene is generally safe at room temperature, its vaporization in high-temperature environments may increase the risk of lung injury through inhalation.
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