TY - JOUR T1 - Severe respiratory illness in an intravenous drug abuser JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 207 LP - 211 DO - 10.1183/18106838.0302.207 VL - 3 IS - 2 AU - A. Elsheikh AU - H. Barker AU - D. Mukherjee AU - B. Yung Y1 - 2006/12/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/3/2/207.abstract N2 - A 36-year-old female presented with a 3-day history of increasing shortness of breath, cough with purulent sputum, haemoptysis, pleuretic chest pain, nausea, vomiting and rigors. The patient was an intravenous drug user (IVDU) who smoked 20 cigarettes per day and denied drinking alcohol. Her only past medical history was of mild asthma, for which salbutamol was taken as needed. ER -