Florida plastic surgeon accused of causing patient death following botched Brazilian butt lift
The Florida Department of Health accused a Miami plastic surgeon operating out of a strip mall of causing a patient’s 2023 death in a Brazilian butt lift gone wrong.Dr.
Fermin Morales, who is listed as a surgeon at New Life Plastic Surgery and West Miami-Dade’s Boutinic Aesthetics, allegedly injected fat into the wrong area in an unnamed patient’s glutes in what proved to be a fatal mistake, according to an administrative complaint filed against him obtained by the Miami Herald.In 2023, Morales was still working at Venus Cosmetic Institute/DASO Plastic Surgery, which ran out of a strip mall in Doral, Fla.In June of that year, a 40-year-old woman listed under the initials “S.L.” in the complaint came in for a Brazilian butt lift, or a “liposuction with gluteal fat grafting.”BBLs typically consist of relocating fat in the abdomen and back area to the glutes, but not the glute muscles.
Inserting it into the muscles is fatal and violates the Florida Administrative Code.Morales used an ultrasound to help him place the fat into S.L.’s glutes, but injected it into her glute muscles instead, according to the complaint.The impact was almost instantaneous and the woman died the next day.An autopsy reportedly “found copious globules of lacerated fat throughout S.L.’s left and right superficial and deep gluteal muscles,” according to the report.
Additional fat globules in blood were also found in her left lung vessels.Before the fatality, Morales maintained a squeaky-clean record on the medical license he received in 2011.He has been board-certified by the American Board of Surgery since 2009.Morales is just one of many New Life plastic surgeons with accidental fatality accusations lobbed against them.In 2022, Dr.
Naveed Nosrati faced a malpractice lawsuit following a botched abdominoplasty that resulted in a fatal pulmonary embolism.His insurance company shelled out $250,000 to settle the lawsuit.In another BBL gone wrong, Dr.
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