The U. S. fitness government says 93 Americans have died after cosmetic surgery in the Dominican Republic since 2009, with most of the recent deaths involving a procedure known as a Brazilian butt lift.
The operation has gained popularity recently and has also led to deaths in other countries, the United States added. A report released Thursday through the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the U. S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention has released a report on the U. S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention. The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services can tell how common those deaths are, or if they are no longer common. unusual in the United States. Dominican Republic.
The report suggests measures that medical tourists deserve to take before traveling to do their work.
“Be informed about who is doing your surgery, the qualifications of the person doing your surgery, and whether or not the facility is capable of doing the surgery and whether it is capable of providing adequate post-operative care—which is crucial,” said Dr. Matthew Hudson, the study’s first author.
A Brazilian butt lift involves injecting fat. The report included details of about two dozen of the deaths, and most were the result of fat or blood clots getting into the lungs or bloodstream.
Cosmetic surgery headaches are not unique to the Dominican Republic. Reports of deaths following cosmetic surgeries have emerged in the United States, perhaps most frequently in Florida. The CDC released a separate report Thursday on 15 cases of bacterial infections in women who visited a Florida cosmetic surgery center in 2022.
There have also been sporadic reports in Mexico, and it was added last year when U. S. patients were diagnosed with fungal meningitis after undergoing cosmetic procedures in the border city of Matamoros. Two clinics were closed and a dozen deaths were reported.
The Dominican Republic is known as a friendly island vacation spot, and some doctors there advertise in the U.S., offering breast implants, liposuction and other operations at lower prices. After an increase in U.S. deaths in 2019 and 2020, the U.S. Embassy contacted the CDC, which investigated along with the Dominican Republic Ministry of Health.
They tallied 93 cosmetic surgery-related deaths of U.S. citizens in the Dominican Republic from 2009 to 2022, or an average of about seven a year. All but one were women. More than half of the deaths occurred since 2019, coinciding with the increasing popularity of Brazilian butt lifts. In the U.S., nearly 29,000 of those procedures were done in 2022, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
The procedure involves liposuction of fat from the hips, lower back, thighs, or other areas. The fat is then injected into the buttocks to replace their shape or size. Risks arise when fats are injected too deeply, enter the bloodstream and block key arteries or veins.
Autopsy records show the cause of death was in 11 of the 20 deaths, said Hudson, who is now at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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