Impaired lung function following e-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury in the first cohort of hospitalized adolescents.

Background: Beginning June 2019, Children's Wisconsin was the first hospital to identify a cohort of adolescent patients hospitalized with symptoms likely associated with e-cigarette use. Our report adds to the growing literature describing the radiographic, gross and cytopathologic bronchoscopic findings, and short-term lung function outcomes in this cohort of adolescents with e-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI).

Methods: We present 15 adolescents hospitalized from June to September, 2019 with confirmed EVALI.