Giuliana Battagin, Loredana Sarmati, Pasquale Sordillo, Giovanna Picchi, Giorgio Calisti, Laura Ceccarelli, Pellegrino Antonio, Paolo Nardi, Luigi Chiariello, Massimo Andreoni
Department of Clinical Infectious Diseases and Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University Hospital, V, Montpellier 1, 00133, Rome, Italy.
Cases J. 2010 Jan 25;3:37. doi: 10.1186/1757-1626-3-37.
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.
身体穿刺，尤其是在年轻人中日益流行的一种趋势，常常会因严重感染而变得复杂。我们报告了一例年轻女孩因鼻中隔穿刺后发生金黄色葡萄球菌引起的急性细菌性心内膜炎，并伴有多处脑、肾、脾栓塞，该女孩之前无已知的心脏异常。此病例凸显了对有或无结构性心脏病的患者进行教育的重要性，使其了解穿刺可能带来的危险甚至危及生命的感染并发症，并引发了对于此类操作抗生素预防可能性的进一步讨论。
