Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | Next >> The MMWR reports on the three cases, all women who received injections on Dec. 8 and Dec. 22, 2007, at the same facility in North Carolina.
The first case involved a 42-year-old woman from the District of Columbia who, within 30 minutes of receiving the second injection (on Dec. 22), developed a headache, started vomiting, and reported that her urine resembled "purple blood." On Christmas Eve, she arrived at an emergency room in Maryland with acute kidney failure. She was hospitalized for 10 days but has since recovered.
Within one hour of receiving similar injections, a 26-year-old Illinois woman developed a headache, nausea, and had urine that she said was "burgundy" in color. On Dec. 23, she was found to be in acute kidney failure, underwent dialysis for five weeks but also recovered.
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The third woman, 26 years old and from Maryland, developed pain in her abdomen as well as lightheadedness and nausea after being injected. She was hospitalized for two weeks and had to undergo dialysis, but she, too, recovered.
A North Carolina Division of Public Health investigation and inspection of the facility found multiple problems with infection-control procedures, among other issues.
The substance injected was purported to be silicone oil, but investigators were unable to confirm this. Since silicone oil has not previously been linked to kidney failure, it's likely another substance was present, the CDC report said.
There was no evidence that the facility's practitioner, trained as a radiology technician, had had training for cosmetic procedures or was medically supervised, although she claimed to be.
"The facility was a clinic that had a doctor's name associated with it, but that doctor had not recently been associated with that establishment," Goode said. "The practitioner was not licensed to conduct these procedures and did not have training or supervision to perform these procedures."
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