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Abstract
Case Report
A case of smoking-induced chest pain improved with β2-stimulant
Hirokazu Taniguchi1) Kenta Kanbara1) Shingo Imanishi1) Hitoshi Abo2) Saburo Izumi1)
1)Department of Internal Medicine, Toyama Prefectural Central Hospital 2)Department of Radiology, Toyama Prefectural Central Hospital
ABSTRACT
A 24-year-old Japanese man presented with a complaint of chest pressure. He began to have severe chest pressure several times a day. The attack was frequently induced by smoking. During an attack, we gave him an inhalation with procaterol hydrochloride, and his chest tightness disappeared. He was suspected to have chest pain variant asthma. We asked him to stop smoking, and gave him corticosteroid, and his chest pressure did not reappear. This disease is relatively unknown. There is a need for a better dissemination of knowledge about this disease.
KEYWORDS
Chest pain variant asthma Bronchial asthma Smoking
Received 平成19年9月4日
JJRS, 46(7): 530-534, 2008
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