Buttocks Augmentation and Argentine Beauty Queen
Bad Plastic Surgery Comments (1)
Solange Magnano
The former Miss Argentina, 1994, Solange Magnano, made the mistake that a few other celebrities have made: badgering a plastic surgeon into performing a procedure that is unsafe, unwarranted and unwise.
Latest reports say that Magnano, 38, asked one Argentinean doctor to plump up her rear end with a substance that sounds like the facial filler, ArteFill, that’s used in some cosmetic procedures and contains, a material, PMMA, that is essentially tiny Plexiglass beads suspended in a biological fluid.
ArteFill is approved for a few cosmetic surgery procedures like lessening the appearance of scars or reducing deep facial creases by injection just under the skin. But he turned her down.
The beauty queen then died after receiving silicone injections into her rear, a procedure that is not allowed in Argentina.
It was a needless death on several counts.
One, because buttocks augmentation is frequently safely done in the right hands and even owes its very name – Brazilian Butt Lift – to South America where it was first developed and performed.
The patient’s own fat is painstakingly re-injected into the buttocks for a more rounded, shapely look. If the patient is thin, a solid silicone implant can be inserted into the buttocks for added roundness.
If news reports of the beauty’s death by pulmonary embolism are true, it can mean one of several things.
- She could have had other physical ailments
A physical that includes an electrocardiogram to check on heart health is usually done before plastic surgery. However, Magnano didn’t have one, despite some reports of heart trouble.
- She was kept on the table too long
Somewhere around five or six hours is considered a safe time to keep a patient under general anesthesia. For longer cases, surgeons place compression devices on the legs so blood does not pool and form a clot.
- She was receiving the forbidden silicone injections anyhow.
In 2006, Carlos S. Restrepo, M.D., director of chest radiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, studied 44 cases of emergencies resulting from injections of fluid silicone into the breast, hips, buttocks, vagina, chest and arms. Twenty five percent died.
Another mistake: not checking a plastic surgeon’s level of training, the certification for both the doctor and his or her surgical suite and the hospital privileges.
admin @ December 15, 2009
What a tragedy! I agree with all of your points.
It’s too bad that cosmetic surgery is fraught with so much bad press. Nobody blamed one of my local colleagues when, last week, one of his patients died from a pulmonary embolism after fixation of a femur fracture (thigh bone). P.E.s are exceedingly commmon, and can occur during any surgery (or even spontaneously).