“Crack lung and heart” presenting in a 65 year old man with NHL following chemotherapy

Abstract

Crack cocaine can cause a variety of pulmonary and cardiac complications. Pulmonary findings in a 65 year old man with non hodgkins lymphoma who presented with shortness of breath not resolving with antibiotics are presented. Reported here is the usual manifestation of crack lung in an unusual clinical circumstance underlying the importance of the clinical history in such cases. The finding of crack lung preceeded the diagnosis of probable crack heart. No other similar published case reports were identified by the authors.