Surgeon, 2 docs probed after woman dies after liposuction

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 23 - Three doctors have ended up in the sights of investigators who are working to shed full light on the death of sixty-two-year-old Italian woman Simonetta Kalfus, which occurred twelve days after having undergone liposuction in a private clinic in Rome.
    Among those under investigation is the surgeon who performed the cosmetic surgery, an anesthetist friend of the woman and the doctor at the Pomezia hospital near Rome where the sixty-two-year-old had initially gone and which sent her home.
    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.
    Police are now awaiting the results of the autopsy carried out in recent days which will establish the exact causes of death.
    At the moment, a widespread infection is being hypothesised.
    Investigators are also examining the documentation relating to the studio in the Tuscolana area of the Italian capital where the liposuction was performed to establish whether everything was in order.
    From what has been reconstructed so far, after the cosmetic surgery operation performed on March 6, Kalfus began to feel the first pain.
    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 did not improve. On the contrary, the woman began to feel worse and worse and on March 14 she was admitted to the Grassi hospital in Ostia.
    Her heart stopped last Tuesday after four days in a vegetative coma presumably due to complications related to the cosmetic surgery operation.
    The body was then transferred to the Tor Vergata hospital for the autopsy, performed in recent days and the results of which are now awaited.
    Meanwhile, the work of the Carabinieri continues with the acquisition of 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 and already convicted a year ago for injuries following a breast implant. (ANSA).