Liposuction complications: Usher's wife suffered cardiac arrest?

Marc BurleighFeb 11th, 2009 - 17:32:15

Just pointing out that in the AFP article you used for your information about Tameka Foster, it does not state that the Sirio-Libanes Hospital was the place where she was getting the reported cosmetic surgery. She was said to be taken to the hospital's intensive care unit after the emergency arose presumably at an undisclosed clinic. Here is the article in full:

Brazil hospital mum on health of Usher's wife
SAO PAULO, Feb 10, 2009 (AFP) - A Brazilian hospital treating the wife of US R&B singer Usher for serious health complications arising from plastic surgery refused Tuesday to comment on her health.
'The family has demanded total privacy. The hospital is barred from giving any information,' a spokeswoman for the Sirio-Libanes Hospital in Sao Paulo told AFP.
She confirmed that Tameka Foster, the 37-year-old wife of Usher and mother of their two children, had been admitted to the facility, considered the top hospital in Brazil.
Usher, 30, has canceled concerts in the United States and rushed to Brazil to be with his wife.
His publicist, Simone Smalls, released a statement to media in the United States on Monday saying Foster was 'in stable condition after suffering complications from routine surgery in Brazil.'
The Brazilian news website G1 reported that Foster was rushed to the Sirio-Libanes Hospital's intensive care unit last Friday after a medical emergency during a liposuction operation.
She had suffered cardiac and respiratory arrest as she was being anesthetized for the cosmetic surgery, it said.
Foster had reportedly been put into an induced coma for 24 hours and was now recovering.
G1 reported that a US neuro-surgeon from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Gabriel Hunt, was handling her case. He left the Sao Paulo hospital late Monday without giving comment.

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CarlaFeb 17th, 2009 - 19:10:00

The Clinic for the cosmetic surgery was San Rafael.

After complications she was taken to Sírio-Libanês Hospital which is one of the best hospitals in São Paulo.

Tameka Foster had given birth for about two months before the liposuction which is TOTALLY NOT RECOMMENDED!!!

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