Liposuction and Brazilian butt lift are the new craze for people especially women despite the complications and warnings from health experts. It’s sad that women with kids are also undergoing the knife to enhance their bodies for whatever reason and most of the time, they aren’t lucky enough to survive.
This is a story of a Texas mom named Shyanne Medrano who has died of fungal meningitis liposuction and a BBL in Mexico. Details via the Daily Mail;
The best friend of a Texas woman who died from a fungal brain infection after getting cut-price plastic surgery in Mexico has spoken out about the ‘heartbreaking loss.’
Mother-of-one Shyanne Medrano, 31, of Houston, died from fungal meningitis at a hospital on May 16, 2023 and is one of four Texas women who have died from the infection after they went under the knife in the northern border city of Matamoros.
Her best friend since the seventh grade, Laura Garza, told DailyMail.com that Ms Medrano was complaining about headaches in March after the operation and then died two months later following ‘close to five or six strokes.’
‘It’s heartbreaking, especially when they’re wives, mothers, daughters – they’re somebody,’ Ms Garza said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) believes around 180 Americans who traveled to clinics in Matamoros this year could be at risk.
And the agency is now urging people to go to the nearest emergency room as soon as possible to be evaluated, even if they do not have symptoms.
Ms Medrano traveled to Matamoros to undergo a Brazilian butt lift (BBL) and liposuction at Clinica-K3.
Dr Luis Manuel Rivera De Anda, listed as a gynecologist online, performed her operation.
His Instagram shows a plethora of before and after surgery photos for liposuction, BBLs, and breasts and promotes an offer of full liposuction, a BBL and breast augmentation for 5,000 USD.
It is unknown whether Ms Medrano’s infection had anything to do with Dr Rivera De Anda’s actions.
‘Her results were good. She was happy with how she looked and was feeling ok when she went home,’ said Ms Garza.
‘She was just complaining of some headaches, but she’s always had some, so she didn’t think too much of it.
‘Around Easter, she started feeling a little more pressure [on her head] and her eyes were hurting. She started having that pain in her head.’
A Facebook post by Ms Medrano from April 15 reads: ‘I’m in great pain from my head… today I woke up with an excruciating pain in the back of my head, and it’s really keeping me from functioning normally today.’
Ms Medrano then began slurring her words, and doctors later discovered she had had a stroke.
A few weeks after the operation, Ms Medrano was taken to the hospital with nausea, vomiting and fever — all symptoms of fungal meningitis.
She had ‘close to five or six strokes’, Ms Garza said, as well as blood clots in her head.
Ms Medrano died on May 16, almost two months after her BBL.
Hidalgo County Health Authority Dr Ivan Melendez said around nine patients are in hospitals in Cameron and Hidalgo counties.
He said: ‘The numbers, even in our community, are worrisome.’
He added that those infected might not even realize it: ‘It can be very insidious with its symptoms of headache nausea, vomiting and fever.
‘It can take a while, that’s why we’re so concerned there could be people with this infection and still not aware of it.’
Ms Medrano leaves behind an eight-year-old daughter.
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