Woman died from grave sepsis after liposuction - autopsy

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 24 - 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. (ANSA).