Source – The 24-year-old had found the plastic surgeon online in the city of Sobral, which is located in the Brazilian state of Ceara, and went in for six cosmetic surgeries in a day.
Viviane Lira Monte went under the knife on 31 August for a number of surgical procedures, including liposuction, a breast reduction and having the fat that had been extracted pumped back into her backside.
However, she developed a massive infection in her abdomen and spent 22 days in intensive care before dying of heart failure on 26 September.
Police have told local media they’re now investigating her death as ‘suspicious’, while her family said she’d been allowed to leave just 15 hours after her eight-hour surgery session and very quickly started suffering from complications.
Doctors were able to treat a pulmonary embolism, a life threatening blockage of an artery in the lung, but a massive infection in her abdomen couldn’t be stopped and she died from heart failure.
Her husband Renan Santiago said: “She vomited blood, recovered, but she was never stable.
“There was a lot of inflammation and infection because of the surgery. She couldn’t breathe, but they still managed to reanimate her, and they got her intubated, but she just couldn’t make it back.
“We saw her die little by little. It was 22 days of suffering without good news.
“Every day, she talked to us with a very weak voice and difficulty breathing. She knew she was dying.”
Her husband has claimed that the cosmetic surgeon who carried out six procedures on Viviane is to blame.
Santiago accused the surgeon of offering his wife a discount if she went in for more procedures, and then insisted on being paid a £42,000 fee in cash.
