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Silicone Injections Deadly for Bronx Woman
Posted by admin in bad plastic surgery, Injection Hell on September 1, 2011
NEW YORK (CBS) ― A seemingly harmless cosmetic procedure turned deadly for a Bronx woman. She died one day after receiving silicone injections in her thighs, allegedly administered by someone without a medical license.
Source: wcbstv.com/local/silicone.injections.botched.2.975555.html
Silicone injections are scary. No reputable plastic surgeon offers them to my knowledge. Do not submit to them.
Pichardo was rushed to the hospital but died the next morning of what the medical examiner’s officer said was a silicone pulmonary embolism, caused by so much silicone injected that it was clotting in her lungs.
FDA-approved fillers when used appropriately of course do not do this problem. Silicone injections are not FDA-approved.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Related:
Dr D’s “Can Just Anyone Do My Cosmetic Surgery?”
Originally posted 2009-04-04 11:00:00.
Kaye Cowher dies of Skin Cancer at 54
Posted by admin in Medicine in the News on August 19, 2011
Kaye Cowher, the wife of former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher, died Friday after battling skin cancer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. She was 54.
Born Kaye Young in Bunn, N.C., she met Bill Cowher at N.C. State in 1976, where he was a football player and she and her twin sister Faye played women’s basketball. The couple married in 1981.
Kaye Cowher played a key role in her husband’s decision to retire from coaching in 2007 and move full-time to Raleigh, so the family could be together as their daughters completed their high school and college basketball careers.
-from ESPN.com
Skin cancer death are almost always due to melanoma. The family has not released any information, but this is the most likely cause. Wear your sunscreen….
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Originally posted 2010-07-24 12:00:15.
Silicone Injections Lead To More Death
Posted by admin in Injection Hell, plastic surgery complications, plastic surgery news on June 15, 2011
Patients who get massive silicone injections to enlarge their breasts or buttocks should expect trouble, local cosmetic doctors say. Especially if the silicone isn’t a medical-grade product, the procedure can lead to disfigurement or death. That’s what apparently happened to the patients of Guadalupe Viveros, who allegedly ran an unlicensed cosmetic-injection clinic out of her home in Sylmar, Calif. Police are seeking Viveros and her business partner, sister Alejandra Viveros, in connection with the death of a patient.
The buttocks are “one of the worst places for injections,” said plastic surgeon Dr. John Di Saia of San Clemente and Anaheim. Large quantities of material must be injected there to make a difference in their appearance, but that is risky, because the buttocks contain so many blood vessels, he said. That is reportedly what caused the death last year of former Miss Argentina Solange Magnano, who had died after getting buttock injections of microspheres of PMMA plastic, which apparently blocked an artery in her lungs.
I chimed in on this one as you can read. Silicone injections are bad news. You should steer clear of them.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Originally posted 2010-07-30 07:30:25.
1-800-GET-THIN Lap-Band Death Count up to Four
Posted by admin in Medicine in the News on April 18, 2011
An anesthesiologist’s “suboptimal” care caused a woman to die after recent weight-loss surgery at a Beverly Hills clinic connected to the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising campaign, according to an autopsy report by the Los Angeles County coroner. The report does not identify the anesthesiologist, but lawyers for the clinic and the dead woman’s family said it was Dr. Daniel Shin, a Marina del Rey physician. Shin was on probation with the state medical board at the time of the surgery because of his conviction for assaulting a process server with a meat cleaver, according to medical board records. Tamara Walter died Dec. 26, three days after she had a Lap-Band device implanted at the Beverly Hills Surgery Center, a lawyer for her family said. She is one of four Southern California patients to die after Lap-Band surgeries in the last two years at clinics that received referrals from the 1-800-GET-THIN advertisements, according to interviews with relatives of the deceased patients, lawsuits and autopsy reports.
Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/04/lap-band-death-blamed-on-anesthesiologist.html
The 1-800-GET-THIN death count is up to four according to this report. This time the coroner apparently blamed the death on the anesthesiologist. We have blogged on this company and Lap Band surgery in general before.
Lap-band surgery like any surgery on the obese has risks. I know nothing about the safety rate of this surgical group relative to others, but I know of no deaths by local bariatric surgical groups from whom I see patients.
When patients obtain surgical referral through advertising alone, trouble might be around the corner. It seems to work out that way in plastic surgery anyway. I’d say get a professional referral from your doctor and pass on the ads.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Nevada Booty Injection Death – Elena Caro
Posted by admin in plastic surgery news on April 11, 2011
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – With her smooth skin and wavy, honeyed hair, Elena Caro was celebrated as a beauty by her husband and teenage daughter, who often told her that she didn’t need cosmetic surgery. But at 42, Caro wanted firmer skin and a younger figure, so she secretly booked an appointment with a medical office recommended by a close friend. The quest for perfection might have ended her life, police said. Caro was found walking the streets of Las Vegas in agony Saturday after buttocks enhancement surgery that authorities say was performed by two Colombian nationals in the back room of a tile business. She was pronounced dead minutes later at North Vista Hospital in North Las Vegas. Her cause of death was not immediately determined, pending toxicology tests and an investigation.
Source: ca.news.yahoo.com/2-arrested-death-woman-undergoing-cosmetic-surgery-20110411-070557-720.html
This report is still developing, but seems quite a bit like a previous story we featured of a death after silicone butt injections.
Booty injections not infrequently go badly. Qualified doctors tend to not offer them, so people can find themselves in not-so-qualified hands. Buttock enhancement is not a mainstream plastic surgery procedure probably because it is less predictable than many other operations. In particular, booty augmentation by injection can be very dangerous and has been associated with deaths like in this case usually due to the injected substance finding its way to the heart or brain by a process called embolization.
The most typical case involves embolization of silicone gel after injection. We will see if that was what happened here as the story develops.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Hip Hop Wannabe Dead of Hotel Silicone Booty Injection
Posted by admin in Injection Hell, plastic surgery news on February 10, 2011
This is British wannabe hip-hop star Claudia Aderotimi, who died after an illegal cosmetic procedure to enhance her bottom went tragically wrong. The university student, 20, flew to Philadelphia, US, for silicone jabs to increase the curve of her buttocks. But Claudia, of Hackney, East London, suffered chest pains after the injections and died in hospital. US cops are investigating.
Source: thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3403090/Brit-wannabe-hip-hop-star-Claudia-Aderotimi-died-after-her-illegal-op-went-tragically-wrong.html
Silicone injections lead to nightmares. Read the section here at the blog entitled “Injection Hell.” There are quite a few stories.
Points to Keep You Safe:
(1) Injectable substances are not all the same. Silicone gel injections carry risk. In small quantities we can get “Lisa Rinna Lips” which are inflamed painful lumps of silicone and scar that only occasionally can be cut out without deformity. In larger quantities (such as booty shots) the stuff can get into the blood vessels and travel to the heart and lungs leading to death. Go to a reputable plastic surgeon when considering soft tissue augmentation. You will find we don’t offer silicone injections.
(2) You are unlikely to meet a reputable plastic surgeon at a hotel room. We occasionally present to groups at hotel meeting halls as promotions. Meeting you at a hotel is a maybe. Operating there is a giant red flag.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Not All Doctors Are So Smart
Posted by admin in Medicine in the News on September 24, 2010
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (Aug. 31) — A doctor involved in an “on-again, off-again” relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend’s home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing body was found there three days later. Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, 49, first tried to get into the house with a shovel, then climbed a ladder to the roof last Wednesday night, removed the chimney cap and slid feet first down the flue, Bakersfield police Sgt. Mary DeGeare said.
Source: aolnews.com/nation/article/dr-jacquelyn-kotaracs-body-found-in-chimney-after-she-tried-to-enter-boyfriends-house/19615907
I am sure it seemed like a good idea the time and would wager that alcohol was involved.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Botox Death Trial?
Posted by admin in Medicine in the News on July 30, 2010
By a 10-2 vote, jurors decided Tuesday that Botox-maker Allergan was not responsible for the death of a young cerebral palsy patient who died in 2007 after Botox injections.
Cerebral Palsy is awful disease. The child apparently died after the onset of respiratory failure with pneumonia. The fact that a suit like this could be filed is part of that which is wrong with our tort system. Sick patients tend to pass away. Trying to make it a payday for her family on the back of the maker of a product is more often than not wrong. Even if the product was involved in the patient’s demise (which I believe is unlikely,) Allergan didn’t administer it. It is like penalizing a gun maker for a shooting-related death.
In the end, these suits cost the taxpayers and we don’t need any more bills.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Originally posted 2010-03-03 10:00:26.
MedSpa Carboxytherapy Death?
Posted by admin in plastic surgery news on October 2, 2009
A Florida woman is brain dead after a MedSpa treatment went horribly wrong:
People need to realize that funky injection therapies are not FDA approved and that means you are experimenting with your body. When you let someone at a MedSpa near you with a needle consider what might be in there and the reputation and training of your injector. It is not natural to inject carbon dioxide in your body. It probably was inadvertently injected into a vein resulting in a fatal air embolism.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
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