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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023

Spontaneous Pneumothorax Secondary to Bullous Lung Emphysema Positive for Cannabinoids upon Toxicological Examination.

Mario Bisconti, Angela De Palma, Roberta Pacifici, Maria Concetta Rotolo, Simona Pichini, Debora Brascia, Xenia Trabucco, Manuela Pellegrini, Laura Carrozzi, Francesco Pistelli and 1 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Does Cannabis Smoke Cause Interstitial Lung Disease?Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
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  3. The Puzzle of Marijuana Use and Forced Vital Capacity.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Mario BiscontiUnit of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy.
Angela De PalmaUnit of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3336-0021
Roberta PacificiNational Centre on Addiction and Doping, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Maria Concetta RotoloNational Centre on Addiction and Doping, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Simona PichiniNational Centre on Addiction and Doping, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Debora BrasciaUnit of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0860-1647
Xenia TrabuccoUnit of Pathology, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", 70124 Bari, Italy.
Manuela PellegriniNational Centre on Addiction and Doping, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3348-5297
Laura CarrozziUnit of Pneumology, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy.
Francesco PistelliUnit of Pneumology, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5612-6364
Giuseppe MarulliUnit of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy.
Istituto Superiore di Sanità · ITUniversity of Bari Aldo Moro · ITUniversity of Pisa · ITOspedale Vito Fazzi · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cannabis can be related to respiratory diseases, but the relationship between smoking marijuana and the development of a pneumothorax has scarcely been investigated. We aimed to analyze, in patients with a history of cannabis smoking abuse submitted to lung apicectomy for a primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP), the correlation between the presence of cannabinoids in the resected lung and the detection of bullous emphysema within the same tissue. Patients undergoing lung apicectomy for a PSP were prospectively enrolled, and the correlation between the presence of cannabinoids in the resected lung tissue and histological finding of bullous emphysema was investigated with Fisher's exact test. There were 21 male patients, with a median age of 27 years. The cannabinoids found by the toxicological examination in surgical specimens were mainly delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabinol (CBN), and cannabidiol (CBD). In 14/21 patients, cannabinoids were detected in the resected lung tissue, and bullous emphysema was present in 13/14 of these (93%), while bullous emphysema was found in only 1/7 (14%) of the remaining patients who were negative for cannabinoids in the lung tissue, and the difference was found to be statistically significant (

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bullous lung emphysemacannabinoidscannabis smokingdelta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP)

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PMID37568358
PMCPMC10419578
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