Man Dies from Infection After Dental Implant Surgery.

[dfinsvalde]

The deceased was a 67-year-old male who had been suffering from hypertension, cirrhosis, and hepatitis B.

He received dental implant surgery at a dental clinic in Korea in the spring of April 2020. Two days after the surgery, he began to experience pain and fever at the site of the surgery. He took painkillers and antibiotics, and had the dental implant removed eight days after the surgery.

The pain persisted even after the removal, so he visited a general hospital. The examination results showed an abscess in the gums at the site of the surgery, an X-ray examination showed pneumonia, and a blood culture test confirmed Klebsiella pneumoniae (a bacterium that destroys the human alveoli).

He was diagnosed with sepsis, had a body temperature of 38.3°C, and died three days after being admitted to a general hospital.

The deceased was approximately 175 cm tall and weighed approximately 71 kg. Upon examination of the face, the second upper molar (tooth 17) on the right side of the upper jaw was found to have been extracted, and the upper jaw bone was found to have been exposed at the extraction site.

An incision and gauze insertion site were identified at the border between the gums and oral mucosa next to the extraction site.

When the gauze insertion site around the extraction site was incised, a light brown abscess was observed, and a histological examination confirmed soft tissue infiltration by inflammatory cells such as neutrophils and lymphocytes.

When the upper jaw bone was incised, brown mucus flowed from the right paranasal sinus (paranasal sinus), and edema and grayish-white nodules of various sizes were irregularly distributed in all lobes of both lungs.

In the blood drug and toxicology tests, 'methylephedrine', 'chlorpheniramine', 'dihydrocodeine', 'acetaminophen', 'tramadol', 'propranolol', 'pheniramine', and 'lidocaine' used during hospitalization were detected below the therapeutic concentration range.

'Acinetobacter genomospecies' and 'Klebsiella pneumoniae' were detected at the implant surgery site, 'Comamonas testosteroni' and 'Klebsiella pneumoniae' were detected at the gauze insertion site, and 'Klebsiella pneumoniae' was detected in the maxillary sinus.

[kellyhound]

Klebsiella pneumoniae is common and found in the intestines of people. They can cause urninal or airway infections and can be lethal for elderly or people suffering other diseases. They get more resistance past decade and then they can be dangerous even for healthy people. sometimes there's an outbreak at Hospitals and patients die. Think we all will die from bacteria or virusses in the end.

In terms of new strategies f to treat K. pneumoniae infections, researchers have employed a variety of innovations to address the serious challenge of antimicrobial drug resistance.

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[kbt3168]

Bet he had some nasty breath going on at the end.

[Pyramid_Head]

Damn, poor guy.

[CatBatMan]

Tramadol is absolutely fucking useless.

[angelwane]

Oh God. Makes me want to avoid getting another dental implant

[Caf002]

Implants tend to be a source of infects. I had a knee replacement last year and didn’t find out until afterwards, that I will need to take antibiotics before any dental procedure. Just within the last week or two, I found it is the same before any GI or GU procedures.