Complication of nasal piercing by Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis: a case report and a review of literature.
Body piercing, a growing trend especially in young people, is often complicated by severe infections. We present a case of acute bacterial endocarditis by Staphylococcus aureus complicated by multiple cerebral, kidney, spleen embolisms in a young girl, with no known previous cardiac abnormalities, following the piercing of nasal septum. This case highlights the importance of education of patients with and without structural heart disease to the potential dangerous and even life threatening infectious complications of piercing, and stimulate further discussion on the possibility of antibiotic prophylaxis of such procedures.
Giuliana
Battagin
B
Department of Clinical Infectious Diseases and Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University Hospital, V, Montpellier 1, 00133, Rome, Italy. sarmati@med.uniroma2.it.
Loredana
Sarmati
S
Pasquale
Sordillo
S
Giovanna
Picchi
P
Giorgio
Calisti
C
Laura
Ceccarelli
C
Pellegrino
Antonio
A
Paolo
Nardi
N
Luigi
Chiariello
C
Massimo
Andreoni
A