Talk:Mariana Bridi Costa

=Height= She had only 3ft 10 but was a topmodel??? Or did they amputate 1 1/2 feet and this is the final height given here?

Deleted references
I don't know what sense it makes if the references are going to be deleted. At least two references should be included in the article, in order to verify the content:



I don't do this for fun, believe me! -- Grochim (talk) 11:05, 24 January 2009 (UTC)


 * OK thank you. -- Grochim (talk) 11:06, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

blarragar —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.93.129.10 (talk) 11:53, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

What is that: ? The official web presence isn't a valid source? Ok. Good to know that. -- Grochim (talk) 19:12, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

This entry NEEDS to stay on Wikipedia because it draws much-needed attention to the extremely severe problem of drug-resistant bacteria. They are knocking off people in the prime of life and public awareness needs to be raised on the matter desperately. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.116.69.203 (talk) 08:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Medical background

 * Is it possible to get medical background information for this case ? Hektor (talk) 11:37, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/24/mariana-bridi-dies-miss-w_n_160551.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.57.57.49 (talk) 08:43, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Record of Wiki Process
Go There 72.228.150.44 (talk) 14:09, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Image
Why is it not possible to transfer the image from ? It is already licensed there under GNU... -- Grochim (talk) 12:08, 4 February 2009 (UTC); edited by Grochim (talk) 06:39, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Medical Inaccuracies
I just want to premise this edit with the fact I am a practising Internist and Infectious Diseases specialist.

There are a few medical inaccuracies in this article which I wanted to point out.

1. Someone said she was misdiagnosed as having "kidney stones" and then later found to have a "urinary tract infection". This statement is inaccurate and here are a few notes to shed some light: a. Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a blanket term for infections of the urinary tract, while a kidney stone is a possible CAUSE for a UTI. b. The doctors did not "misdiagnose" a kidney stone. UTIs are the most common area for infection in young healthy females, and usually when the UTI results in septic shock, it's because there is a kidney stone complicating the picture. c. Because she was so sick, they assumed it was likely a UTI secondary to a kidney stone, but they later found out she did NOT have a stone. She wasn't "misdiagnosed". The doctors knew full well she had septic shock, but they had to wait for tests to come back (i.e. an abdominal ultrasound) to figure out WHY she had this problem.

2. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is certainly NOT an unusual cause of UTI. In fact, it is one of the most common causes, but with one postulate....it is one of the most common causes of UTI in sick patients who have been in hospital for a while. What was unusual in Bridi's case is that she was young and healthy and presumably not recently in the hospital yet got a Pseudomonas infection. Though this is not unheard of as Pseudomonas is a water loving bug and does live in watery areas outside of the hospital. One thing that may have happened is that she received antibiotics before she got very ill.

3. There was a lot of sensationalization around the idea she had her toes amputated. They were not amputated to "save her life"; rather, this was a complication of both the infection and the life-sustaining agents used in the ICU to keep her alive. First off, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, when it is rampant throughout the bloodstream, likes to collect in small vessels of the body. This can result in the vessels clotting closed and then the tissue perfused by said vessels dies. This however usually only happens in CANCER patients who have Pseudomonas septic shock. More likely, Bridi was being given high doses of a drug called "Levophed" which is actually noradrenaline. This drug is given to keep the blood pressure within a reasonable range. Blood pressure drops during septic shock. Noradrenaline does this by causing constriction of blood vessels which diverts blood to the vital organs. Unfortunately, this diverts blood AWAY from the extremities (especially the toes) and can cause them to die and turn black. They fall off usually, but sometimes are purposely amputated to prevent infection. The toes in themselves were a "side-effect" of her illness and in no way posed threat to her life.

In reality what happened to Bridi was sheer "bad luck" and it had nothing to do with anything any doctor did or did not do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Schakra2 (talk • contribs) 02:57, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Anorexia?
I think this article has been inaccurately labelled with 'deaths from anorexia'. The links don't mention that she was anorexic, or that this was a factor in why she got sick. It sounds like she died from a terrible tragedy. 94.174.108.74 (talk) 17:16, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

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Image
I looked up her image and I have to admit the image here is completely inconsistent with her appearance in pretty much every other existing picture of her out there. How can we verify the veracity of her image? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.38.126.69 (talk) 19:31, 3 October 2019 (UTC)