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.
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