The Zelaya family is filing a lawsuit after an autopsy report says Lidvian Zelaya died due to complications during cosmetic surgery.
A?Miami?man announced?Thursday he plans to file a lawsuit against a cosmetic surgery chain after his wife died during a procedure to enlarge her?derriere.
In December, Lidvian Zelaya died on an operating table at Strax Rejuvenation and Aesthetics Institute?in Lauderhill after suffering a fat embolism, an recenty released autopsy report?concluded.
That condition was brought on after the surgeon injected the equivalent of two liters of fat into the 35-year-old woman's buttocks, attorney Spencer Aronfeld alleges.
"When you inject that much fat into the human body, you exponentially increase the risk of a fat embolism," he said. "At no point should that much fat be put into someone's body that far from a hospital."
A telephone number for Strax rang unanswered Thursday after business hours.
While the Broward Medical Examiner's report classifies the death as an accident, Zelaya's husband, Osvaldo, claims the doctor and cosmetic surgery center is at fault because they did not take the proper precautions in case something went wrong during surgery.
Zelaya had the procedure done on Dec. 27 in preparation for a New Year's Eve party, her husband said.
The doctor who performed the surgery took fat from Zelaya's back, stomach and sides and pumped some of it back into her butt, Aronfeld said.
A?doctor's chart stated that 1,000 cc of fat was injected into each of Zelaya's cheeks, Aronfeld said. That's about?four times as much as would normally be injected during such a procedure, he claims.
The needle that injected the fat went into a vein, which eventually?caused fat to flood Zelaya's lungs and she died on the operating table.
Aronfeld said he has forwarded his information to the Broward State Attorney's Office because he feels there was enough evidence to warrant a criminal investigation.
"This was simply done to make her buttocks larger," Aronfeld said, "and instead it ended up costing her life."
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