Another Patient Dies at a Miami Cosmetic Surgery Clinic

Posted By American Med Spa Association, Tuesday, December 19, 2017

NBC 6 reported that London, a mother of two, was having an abdominoplasty or tummy tuck, a surgery to make the abdomen thinner and more firm. That’s the same procedure that Maria Christian, a 32-year-old mother of two from Ecuador, had performed at the same clinic in September 2016 when she also went into cardiac arrest and died. At the time, the clinic was called Vanity Cosmetic Surgery. The clinic was later rebranded as Eres Plastic Surgery, and last summer it changed names again to Jolie Plastic Surgery. It’s unclear if ownership of the clinic has changed. Two other patients have died from complications of cosmetic surgery at the Southwest Eighth Street clinic, including Maribel Cardona, a 51-year-old mother of five in 2013, who underwent a liposuction and gluteal fat grafting, also known as a Brazilian butt lift. >>Read More