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Chest, Vol 94, 640-642, Copyright © 1988 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Hemorrhagic pulmonary edema associated with meat tenderizer treatment for esophageal meat impaction

ML Hall and JS Huseby
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.

We describe a case of acute hemorrhagic pulmonary edema caused by aspiration of Adolph's meat tenderizer, used in an attempt to relieve an esophageal meat impaction. We performed an animal experiment in which bronchial instillation of a similar solution reproduced the clinical findings in our patient. This is a previously unreported and potentially lethal complication of a therapy that has never been submitted to clinical trials. We recommend against the use of this therapy for patients with complete esophageal obstruction or in those otherwise at risk for aspiration.


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