After Amputation, Miss Brazil Bridi Is Critical

A misdiagnosis, septicaemia, hands and feet amputation – as if this was not enough, Mariana is fighting for her life.

After she had her limbs amputated, Mariana Bridi da Costa is still critical.

- We are afraid for her life – Mariana`s father told the Folha de S. Paulo daily.

The 20-year-old Brazilian model and finalist of the Miss World beauty pageant suffered a urinary infection, after which septicaemia cut off her circulation to the limbs. Doctors at the hospital in Serra, Espirito Santo, were forced to amputate both of her hands and feet.

The family of the unfortunate beauty is worried, although it was announced on her website that she was stable.

Mariana`s boyfriend Thiago Simoes told G1 that she fell ill in December, but was misdiagnosed with kidney stones. It is only that additional tests determined she was infected with the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.

Seeing how the infection spread swiftly, Bridi decided to have more test and the surgeons were forced to amputate the damaged hands and feet in order to stop the infection from spreading, news.com.au writes.


Source: javno.com