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ReviewJournal of general internal medicine2020

EVALI and the Pulmonary Toxicity of Electronic Cigarettes: A Review.

Lydia Winnicka, Mangalore Amith Shenoy

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Review in Journal of general internal medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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47citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Article
  4. Vaping-related lung disease: a narrative review.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026
    Review
  5. Observational
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  10. E-Cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury: A Comprehensive Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
    Review
  11. The hidden dangers of electronic cigarettes: e-cigarette, or vaping, product-use associated lung injury requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2025
    Article
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  13. [EVALI: Severe ARDS requiring ECMO due to e-cigarette use in a 16-year-old male patient].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2025
    Article
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  17. Acute nicotine poisoning in a 2-year-old child - A case report of a near-death event.Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Lydia WinnickaDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, NYU Winthrop Hospital, 222 Station Plaza North, Suite 400, Mineola, NY, 11501, USA. lydiawinnicka@gmail.com.
Mangalore Amith ShenoyDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, NYU Winthrop Hospital, 222 Station Plaza North, Suite 400, Mineola, NY, 11501, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electronic cigarettes are a novel and emerging product increasingly used by the general public. However, despite their popularity, they remain poorly studied and with likely serious health risks. EVALI, or "electronic cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury," is a recently described entity at the forefront of current investigations. Though EVALI has been linked to vitamin E acetate, a constituent of THC vaping products, electronic cigarettes likely pose a host of other pulmonary toxicities. The presentation, diagnostic work-up, treatment, and pathophysiology of EVALI are herein described, as well as the general pulmonary toxicity profile of electronic cigarettes.

Indexed as

Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsElectronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsLung InjuryVapingHumans

Identifiers

PMID32246394
PMCPMC7351931

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