Posted on 07/14/2023 6:48:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
The cause of Lisa Marie Presley's January death was a small bowel obstruction, officials said Thursday. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo July 14 (UPI) -- Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, died in January due to a small bowel obstruction, the Los Angeles County medical examiner's office said.
The report, released Thursday, states the small bowel obstruction was caused by scar tissue that developed following bariatric surgery that was performed years prior.
"The manner of death is natural," the report states.
Presley, 54, died Jan. 12 at a local hospital where she was rushed after being found unresponsive earlier that day at her Calabasa home.
The medical examiner's report states that she was pronounced dead at 5:08 p.m. and that an unidentified ex-husband was who had found her and who had called the paramedics to the scene.
It added that though Presley had a history of drug use she had been sober "for the past few years" and that toxicology results showed "therapeutic levels of oxycodone" and other medications in her system at the time of her death.
The report adds that she had for months complained of abdominal pain, vomiting, nausea and fevers but did not have the issues medically examined.
Presley, the daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, was buried with her late father and her only son, Benjamin Keough, at the family's famous Graceland estate in Tennessee.
In a way it is unnatural. Bariatric surgery is not a natural thing and it seems she died from complications of it.
Yes. I was including surgery in my notion of “easily corrected.” That’s sloppy and imprecise, but I’m assuming that clearing a blockage caused by old scar tissue, in this day and age, is straightforward enough for a competent surgeon. I have no idea how common this kind of issue may be. But it’s not cancer, severe internal hemorrhaging, or the result of a severe traumatic injury. It obviously needs to be done with care but trimming away some excess scar tissue strikes me as one of the less scary things that would require surgical intervention in that part of the body.
My mom almost died from an okd appendectomy scar that twisted around and blocked her intestines.
It can happen with scars. And hers was don probably in the 40’s when they really had to cut you open to go in.
I didn’t remember her ever being heavy enough for bariatric surgery, but back in 2019 she was very heavy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6932955/Lisa-Marie-Presley-spotted-candy-store-NYC.html
Always found her easy on the eyes. Particularly when she was with Jackson, I suppose when she was less than 30. Broken, screwed-up families, losing a father at too young an age can result in such pathologies. She was also married to Nicolas Cage.
That’s a reference to her small intestines, as opposed to her colon.
Apparently, not.
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