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Piercing and tattooing enjoy widespread popularity in modern society. Patients with congenital heart disease are at elevated risk for infective endocarditis. However, it is not yet known whether piercing and tattooing are dangerous for these patients.A search of the literature provided 10 published cases of infective endocarditis after piercing or tattooing. Affected patients were adolescents or young adults ranging in age from 13 to 30 years (5 male, 5 female). Four of the patients had a known cardiac risk factor for endocarditis (bicuspid aortic valve, postoperative trans-position of the great arteries, postoperative coarctation, postoperative aortic valve stenosis). Piercing preceded endocarditis in 9 cases (4 times mouth, 2 ear, 1 nose, 1 breast, 1 navel), one tattoo. The following agents were isolated: S. aureus in 4 cases, 2 S. epidermidis, 1 Str. viridans, 1 Neisseria mucosa, 1 Haemophilus aphrophilus, 1 Haemophilus parainfluenzae. All patients were treated with antibiotics. Six patients underwent cardiac surgery (5 of them valve replacement). Patients with congenital heart disease constitute less than 1% of the population. Thus, they are clearly overrepresented in the published literature. Epidemiologic conclusions are not possible from these data. However, patients with congenital heart disease and their parents should be strongly advised against piercing and tattooing with regard to the risk of infective endocarditis.
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PMID:[Piercing and tattoos in patients with congenital heart disease -- is it a problem?]. 1533 48

While body piercing has been practiced for many centuries, the popularity of this body art has increased vastly in recent years. It is estimated that up to 51% of college-age individuals in the United States have ear piercing or other forms of piercing or tattoo. Although perceived as a relatively safe practice, medical complications, mostly resulting from bleeding and infections, occur in 17% of all cases after piercing. The case is reported of a patient with native mitral valve endocarditis after tongue piercing, resulting in acute mitral valve insufficiency that required valve replacement.
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PMID:Streptococcus endocarditis after tongue piercing. 1757 56

Cranberry containing products can protect against recurrent UTIs. The duration of treatment for uncomplicated pyelonephritis can be safely shortened to 7 days when using ciprofloxacin. Early surgical treatment for infective endocarditis in patients with large vegetations (> 10 mm) and valve dysfunction should be considered, even in the absence of urgent indications for surgery. Enterobacteriaceae with ESBL are less transmitted in hospital than in households. Tattoo ink-related mycobacterial infections are increasingly reported, even in Western Switzerland. Differentiating acute bacterial from viral rhinosinusitis on clinical criteria remains difficult. Antibiotic and non-antibiotic prevention of acute exacerbations of COPD is still a hot topic, we propose to discuss here.
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PMID:[Infectious diseases]. 2336 4