Breast augmentation has left four children orphans

Loving mother of four children died of cardiac arrest a few years after breast augmentation surgery. Breast implants awakened dormant in the body of a woman tuberculosis bacteria.

Most of her life Englishwoman Kerry Eliya hated flat chest and wanted to buy more enviable shape. For years she had been saving money for plastic surgery, that the mother of four children was not easy to do. But finally, the dream came true, and doctors performed surgery to breast augmentation .

However, breast implants, costing Kerry in 3750 pounds, began to slowly kill her. Eighteen months later, the woman began coughing heavily. X-rays showed there is a danger of pulmonary disease - tuberculosis.   Doctors are not sure exactly where Kerry picked up the infection. But there is a theory that bacteria TB   It was in the woman's body for years in an inactive, dormant. And increase the bust led to their activation. However, no one in her family, and for a moment doubted that antibiotics kill tuberculosis that seems to happen soon.

But after a while one of the implants burst and chest appeared huge hole through which blood began to flow. At the hospital, it became clear that tuberculosis   back, and the bacteria "devoured" the scar tissue. The risk of infection was very high, the implants had to be removed. A year later they set back, but then exploded a second implant, and removed completely.

Repeated tests showed the presence of the organism Staphylococcus aureus, which was successfully treated. A year later he returned again tuberculosis, leading to the formation of lumps in the breast. It was not a tumor and scar tissue from previous operations, which turned out to be infected. Doctors have advised Kerry to remove her left breast, but she decided on a double mastectomy to eliminate all sores once and for all.

Damn tuberculosis came back for the third time in a few weeks after surgery. At this time, the woman does not respond to medication, and surgeons had to remove part of the lung. The operation was successful, and Kerry was discharged home. A month later, at night she started bleeding. There was a new hospitalization - this time last. Two days later, the woman died in the resuscitation of cardiac arrest caused extensive internal hemorrhage.

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