Novel Methods for the Analysis of Toxicants in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Samples from E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) Cases: Selected Petroleum Distillates.

CONCLUSIONS: We developed and validated a method to quantify petroleum distillates in BAL fluid specimens using GC/MS. The assay provided precise and accurate analyses of EVALI and non-EVALI BAL fluid specimens in support of CDC's EVALI response. This method is applicable to the determination of a broad range of VOCs in BAL fluid specimens.
PMID: 32672382 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry : RCM - July 15, 2020 Category: Chemistry Authors: De Jesús VR, Chambers DM, Reese C, Braselton M, Espinosa P, Corstvet J, Blount BC Tags: Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom Source Type: research