A Brazilian businesswoman has lost her life due to complications stemming from cosmetic surgery performed by a renowned doctor.
With the regularity people get cosmetic surgery, it’s easy to forget just how dangerous slicing the body up in the name of vanity can be. Even top surgeons can sometimes make mistakes and lose patients under the knife.
40-year-old Natália Cavanellas wanted more work done, and so booked herself into San Gennaro Hospital in Mooca. She was planning to have liposuction, buttock injections, and adjustments to breast implants performed by famed surgeon, Dr. Edgar Lopez.
Liposuction is very common and has been performed since 1975. Over the years, it has been fine-tuned, but it is still considered dangerous. There are many adverse effects that can result from cosmetic surgery. However, the woman was paying top dollar for a well-known surgeon and didn’t expect it to go awry.
Vanity Proves Its Place As One Of The Seven Deadly Sins
The businesswoman’s vanity ended up costing her her life as she underwent the cosmetic surgery. While she slet through the liposuction, buttock injections, and adjustments to breast implants, she suffered a cardiac arrest.
According to the police report acquired by CNN Brazil, it was during the gluteal injections that she had a heart attack. Doctors present during the cosmetic surgery attempted CPR, but the woman died shortly after.
The death of Cavanellas a the hands of her plastic surgeon is being treated as suspicious. However, the statement released by the clinic seems to absolve them of any blame. According to their statement, the possibility of death during this kind of plastic surgery is simply an understood risk.
As a successful Brazilian businesswoman, her death has left many people who look up to her shocked. She was somewhat of an idol to many other aspiring businesspeople. Her sudden death has elicited a large show of support online.
There is never any reason to disfigure yourself in the name of vanity. The surgeons that perform cosmetic surgery are vampiric, damaging, leeches. The sooner people stop putting their lives at risk for the manufactured lies of beauty that the cosmetic industry feeds, the better.