Model Dies After Losing Hands, Feet To Infection – With Video

January 24th, 2009 (9) Posted By Erik Wong.

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Was on the phone with my Doc/sister when I saw this story.

She has had a patient with this infection (managed to save the guy’s foot), and says it’s a horrible infection that doesn’t need oxygen to thrive, and bloats the extremity … Upon cutting into the infected limb the gas is released and as she put it, “Smells like a rotting garbage dump” … so bad so that everyone in the OR was gagging and covering their noses.

So, to have both feet and hands amputated this poor young lady was lost …

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FOX:

Officials say a Brazilian model whose feet and hands were amputated because of an infection has died.

Officials said in a statement early Saturday that 20-year-old Mariana Bridi’s condition deteriorated overnight. She died at 2:30 a.m.

The Espirito Santo State Health Secretariat said in the statement she died from complications related to a generalized infection. It was caused by the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is known to be resistant to multiple kinds of antibiotics.

The beauty pageant contestant was suffering a generalized infection that forced the amputation of her hands and feet earlier this week because the flow of oxygen to her limbs was reduced.

Bridi was not breathing on her own and was undergoing hemodialysis at a hospital in the city of Serra, the secretariat said.

Bridi twice was a finalist in the Brazilian stage of the Miss World beauty pageant, according to local media, and participated in the 2007 Miss Bikini International contest.

Bridi fell ill in December and doctors originally diagnosed her with kidney stones, local media said. But her condition worsened and doctors then diagnosed a urinary tract infection that spread. She was hospitalized on Jan 3.

Once she was hospitalized, doctors discovered septicemia had set into her limbs, cutting off circulation.

They were forced to amputate.

Septicemia is the presence of bacteria in the blood. It’s a serious, life-threatening infection that rapidly gets worse. It can arise from infections throughout the body, including infections in the lungs, abdomen, and urinary tract, the National Institutes of Health said on its Web site.

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  • Lftbhndagn (God, Family & Country)

    Hands & Feet? Could it be she fell victim of a bad manicure & pedicure from a place that did not properly clean their instruments? Flesh eating bacteria?

  • Steve Rogers

    Aren’t news stories supposed to answer 4 questions (who, what, when, where and how). This article answers who and when. Barely answers what and doesn’t even attempt to answer how (IMO, the most important one). The journalistic equivalent of junk food, tastes good, feels good and contains no nutritional elements.

  • BlueOval8950

    :arrow: Lft, Jenny -

    Based on other reading I have done, the Septis developed due to another bacteria “pseudomonas aeruginosa”, which caused the urinary tract infection she had. She had been initially misdiagnosed with kidney stones. I just wonder if they had properly diagnosed her, if this could have been avoided.

    The Septis stopped the blood flow to the extremities and lead to the amputations due to tissue death. I guess she had a really rare blood type and they then had to remove part of her stomach later. It was just a downward spiral after that.

    Scary to think a simple infection could lead to ones death.

  • solomonpal

    :arrow: BlueOval8950
    “Scary to think a simple infection could lead to ones death.”

    Not in Brazil I’m thinking…

  • Judy

    Beautiful women. May she rest in peace.

  • Shaun

    “Aren’t news stories supposed to answer 4 questions (who, what, when, where and how).”

    Nope, “news” in the 21st century is meant to entertain & control public opinion, not to actually report facts or unbiased stories.

    You must be doing research about Edward Murrows.

  • Political.fish

    This sounds like what is called, ‘gas gangrene’, or ‘necrotizing fascitis’. I have seen two cases here in the US. It is a horrifying disease process. One case involved a young mother who had had liposuction at an across the border clinic (I’m in San Diego) she was concerned her husband was unhappy after she had a baby. She presented to the ER conscious and vocalizing her concern after her surgical wounds did not heal. Her legs were mottled bilaterally and were visibly worsening. Within a few minutes she was loosing consciousness and the infection line had reached her umbilical region. The skin was purple and appeared like a plumb. It split when pressure was applied. She was rushed to the OR where the entire infected area was debrided, actually skeletonized. She expired a day later, in the ICU after massive antibiotic therapy failed to arrest the infection. The second case was a middle aged man who left a spider 9or some insect) bite go untreated on one of his feet. The hospital course was similar, as was the result.

  • Philly

    Chalk another victim up to Socialized Medicine…coming to a hospital near you…real shame she was delicious..damn shame. :sad:

  • gem

    It’s so sad to have passed away so young. My prayer’s go out to her family. May she rest in peace.