Haemophilus aphrophilus Endocarditis after Tongue Piercing

Piercing invades subcutaneous areas and has a high potential for infectious complications. The number of case reports of endocarditis associated with piercing is increasing. We studied a 25-year-old man with a pierced tongue, who arrived at Memorial Health University Medical Center with fever, chill...

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Autores principales: Akhondi, Hossein, Rahimi, Ali R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12141972
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0808.010458
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description Piercing invades subcutaneous areas and has a high potential for infectious complications. The number of case reports of endocarditis associated with piercing is increasing. We studied a 25-year-old man with a pierced tongue, who arrived at Memorial Health University Medical Center with fever, chills, rigors, and shortness of breath of 6 days duration and had an aortic valvuloplasty for correction of congenital aortic stenosis.
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spelling pubmed-27325252009-09-16 Haemophilus aphrophilus Endocarditis after Tongue Piercing Akhondi, Hossein Rahimi, Ali R. Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch Piercing invades subcutaneous areas and has a high potential for infectious complications. The number of case reports of endocarditis associated with piercing is increasing. We studied a 25-year-old man with a pierced tongue, who arrived at Memorial Health University Medical Center with fever, chills, rigors, and shortness of breath of 6 days duration and had an aortic valvuloplasty for correction of congenital aortic stenosis. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2732525/ /pubmed/12141972 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0808.010458 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Akhondi, Hossein
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Haemophilus aphrophilus Endocarditis after Tongue Piercing
title Haemophilus aphrophilus Endocarditis after Tongue Piercing
title_full Haemophilus aphrophilus Endocarditis after Tongue Piercing
title_fullStr Haemophilus aphrophilus Endocarditis after Tongue Piercing
title_full_unstemmed Haemophilus aphrophilus Endocarditis after Tongue Piercing
title_short Haemophilus aphrophilus Endocarditis after Tongue Piercing
title_sort haemophilus aphrophilus endocarditis after tongue piercing
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12141972
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