Posted on 09/12/2023 11:34:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
Melissa Kerr died from complications after cosmetic surgery. Credit: Justgiving.com/Natasha Kerr A coroner will write to the health secretary to warn of the dangers of cosmetic surgery overseas after a British woman died following a "Brazilian butt lift" in Turkey.
Melissa Kerr, 31, travelled to a private hospital in Istanbul for the procedure, an inquest at Norfolk Coroner's Court heard.
She was "conscious about her appearance" but had only been given “limited information regarding the risks and mortality rate” associated with it, the inquest was told.
Norfolk's senior coroner Jacqueline Lake wants to raise the matter with Health Secretary Steve Barclay, saying that people are unaware of the risks when going abroad for surgery.
Ms Kerr, who had a breast enlargement operation a decade earlier without complications, died at the Medicana Kadikoy hospital on the day of the butt lift – which sees fat harvested from elsewhere on the body and injected into the buttocks – on November 19 2022.
The psychological wellbeing practitioner, of Denton in Norfolk, died after injected fat entered a vein before moving and blocking her pulmonary artery, with her cause of death recorded as a pulmonary thromboembolism, Ms Lake said.
Consultant plastic surgeon Simon Withey, who was asked to view evidence in the case and prepare a report for Ms Kerr’s inquest as an expert witness, said the death rate associated with Brazilian butt lifts is “likely to be in excess of one in 4,000”.
He said it is “quite possible” that, if the risk of the procedure had been explained to Ms Kerr “before she was financially committed to proceed, she would not have done”.
In a string of WhatsApp messages between Ms Kerr and a hospital worker before the Briton travelled to Turkey, Ms Kerr arranged to pay £3,200 in cash.
She asked four times to see photographs of previous patients but there is no evidence they were provided.
Ms Kerr said in her messages she felt “a bit nervous”.
Recording a narrative conclusion, Ms Lake said Ms Kerr died after cosmetic surgery.
The coroner said: “Ms Kerr wasn’t seen by a surgeon or clinician prior to the date of the procedure.
“Ms Kerr underwent a limited assessment prior to the procedures. Ms Kerr was provided with limited information regarding the risks and mortality rate associated with this procedure.”
Ms Lake said “certain techniques” used “increased the risk of embolism occurring”, including a “decision to inject fat into superficial muscle”.
Sad...she was a pretty girl.
Exactly what I was thinking
“The psychological wellbeing practitioner ...”
Erm, okay, sure.
Very sad. Sometimes, poor choices kill you.
vanity is one of the 7 deadly sins
Her posterior probably looked fine enough. Electing to cut up your body to look a certain way is nuts. Is making a Kim K butt worth your own life?
(I am not including bariatric surgery here, since losing weight in morbidly obese patients isn’t merely vanity, it’s about improving long term health and ability to exercise)
He said it is “quite possible” that, if the risk of the procedure had been explained to Ms Kerr “before she was financially committed to proceed, she would not have done”.
Would it be reported if it were a “trabs” child genital mutilation death?
Darwin in action. Culling the herd.
Yep, that’s cold.. But..it..is..reality.
A Miami woman died from a backroom operation similar to this. The practitioner used Fix-a-Flat!
That dress needs a WIDE LOAD sign on it.
“Coroner’s health warning after woman, 31, died following ‘Brazilian butt lift’...”
Why? That sh!t ain’t contagious...is it?
Most sad for the lady and her ignorance. It does bring a new definition of “A Butt to Die For.” This should not happen. She was probably a very nice lady.
I forgot to add. I have had two major surgeries as a transplant partial liver donation to my brother 20 years ago and recent open heart surgery to replace an aortic valve with a bovine valve. This was all necessary. I would never put myself at risk for cosmetic surgery even if the risk was low. I am comfortable in my aging body.
Complications of bariatric surgery is what killed Lisa Marie Pressley...............
Scroll down for what makes this a very dangerous procedure.
These patients need a shrink, not a plastic surgeon.
Ladies, you can have the perfect butt just by doing exercises to strengthen and build your gluteus maximus muscles.
You do not need DANGEROUS surgery!.................
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