A sixty-two-year-old Italian woman,
Simonetta Kalfus, died on March 18 from sepsis after having
undergone liposuction in a private clinic in Rome, according to
the preliminary results of an autopsy published on Monday.
The preliminary results of the autopsy, which was carried out at
the legal medicine institute of the Tor Vergata Hospital, said
the woman died after undergoing multiple cosmetic procedures on
March 6 at the private facility.
The autopsy was ordered by the State Attorney's Office in Rome
which is probing three doctors who performed the procedures on
manslaughter charges.
After a complaint filed by the victim's thirty-five-year-old
daughter, the Carabinieri of the Anzio company acquired the
medical records and all the health documentation relating to the
woman.
Kalfus, who died after four days in a vegetative coma, began to
feel the first pain right after the surgery.
Initially she thought it was a normal post-operative recovery,
but as the days went by the situation worsened and so she
decided to go to the hospital in Pomezia, a town south of Rome.
Here she was discharged with therapy but her condition worsened
and on March 14 she was admitted to the Grassi hospital in Ostia
where she died last Tuesday.
The body was then transferred to the Tor Vergata hospital for
the autopsy.
Meanwhile, investigators are examining the medical documentation
of the sixty-two-year-old and that of the private practice where
the liposuction was performed by the surgeon, who is now under
investigation with two others and already convicted a year ago
for injuries following a breast implant.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA
