Novel methods for the analysis of toxicants in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples from e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (EVALI) cases: Terpenes.

Víctor R De JesúsLalith K SilvaCody A NewmanBenjamin C Blount

Published in: Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM (2021)

We developed and validated a method to quantify selected terpenes in BAL fluid specimens using GC/MS/MS. The assay provided accurate and precise 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 terpenes in BAL fluid specimens.

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