A mother-of-three died Friday after undergoing
a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) at a clinic in Miami.
According to the Miami Herald, 28-year-old Danea Plasencia went into
cardiac arrest and died at the hospital Friday morning—the same day she had the
procedure at the MIA Aesthetics clinic.
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The
Homicide Bureau is currently investigating.
“Throughout
our years of operations and thousands of procedures performed, this is the
first and only fatality we have endured,” the clinic—which advertises itself as
“The Most
Affordable Plastic Surgery Clinic in Miami, FL & Austin, TX”—wrote in a statement on social media. “Our team is
devastated by this tragedy and feels that each and every one of our patients is
part of our family. We strive to provide the most advanced plastic surgery
treatment for our patients. Each of our surgeons is board-certified or
board-eligible by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, and we are constantly
evaluating our practices to ensure our patients receive the safest and best
care. Despite these practices, serious surgery comes with the risk of rare,
unintended and tragic results.”
La Jolla, CA plastic surgeon
Robert Singer, MD echoes that sentiment, not just for BBLs but for any plastic
surgery overall: “It’s devastating when any
complication—especially a death—occurs from an elective surgery. Patients need
to be fully informed of not only the benefits of a procedure, but also the
potential complications,” he says. “To that end, the Aesthetic
Surgery Education and Research Foundation (ASERF) and the
American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) are conducting
additional studies and funding research to find the safest and best way to do
these procedures.”
And
there’s no denying that it’s a procedure that is a popular one—ASAPS reports
that of the 26,774 buttock augmentation
procedures performed in 2018, 94
percent consisted of fat transfer—but it also has “the greatest risk of
death of any aesthetic surgical procedure from fat embolus syndrome,” Eugene,
OR plastic surgeon Mark Jewell, MD stresses. “Patients must consider that risk when
choosing to undergo this procedure.”
This isn’t the first time the red flag over
BBLs has been raised. Earlier this month, a new study, “Subcutaneous Migration: A Dynamic
Anatomical Study of Gluteal Fat Grafting," proposed a new standard of care
for the surgery, stating: “These persuasive findings are profound enough to
propose a new standard of care: no subfascial or intramuscular injection should
be performed, and all injections should be performed exclusively into the
subcutaneous tissue.”
Park
City Utah plastic surgeon Renato Saltz, MD, who specializes in the procedure
says that, currently, a huge amount of work is being done by the Intersociety
Gluteal Fat Injection Task Force (ASAPS, ASPS and ISAPS) to get that public
safety message across.
“This is an important
occasion where the societies have gotten together for patient-safety purposes,”
Dr. Saltz, who is a co-chair of the task force, says. “We’ve done all the
anatomical studies, reviewed the autopsies with the pathologists in Miami and
implemented new educational tools/modules to be presented in less than a week
[at the annual ASAPS meeting] in New Orleans.”
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