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ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY
Volume 71, Issue 4, Pages 1365-1366Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)02273-6
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Piercing the skin for cosmetic reasons can be dangerous in young adults who have previously undergone surgery for congenital defects of the heart. We report the case of a 24-year-old man in whom coarctation of the aorta had been corrected 15 years earlier. Two months after piercing his left nipple without antibiotic prophylaxis, he developed a local mastitis, followed by bacterial endocarditits that required replacement of the aortic valve. (C) 2001 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
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