A woman who underwent six different cosmetic surgeries in an eight-hour operation has died. 24-year-old Viviane Lira Monte had signed up for treatments through a surgeon she found online. The police are currently investigating her death as "suspicious." Viviane underwent this major operation on August 31 in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil. The first part of the surgery included breast reduction and liposuction on the abdomen, arms, back, and chin. Later, the surgeon placed the fat taken from liposuction back into her hips for a buttock augmentation. Just 15 hours after the marathon surgery, she was allowed to leave the operating room and return home. Her health quickly deteriorated. Viviane's family says they rushed her to a local hospital in severe pain. Doctors noticed her blood pressure had dropped and immediately transferred her to another hospital where she was admitted to intensive care. Viviane tragically passed away on September 26 after 22 days of intensive care due to an infection in her abdomen leading to heart failure. According to local media, her death is currently being treated as "suspicious" by the Civil Police at the Municipal Police Station in Sobral. Her grieving husband, Renan Santiago, told reporters in Brazil: "She was vomiting blood, she recovered but was never stable. There was a lot of inflammation and infection due to the surgery. She couldn't breathe, but they managed to resuscitate her and intubated her, but she couldn't come back. We watched her die slowly. She suffered for 22 days without any good news. Every day she spoke to us in a very weak voice and struggled to breathe. She knew she was dying." Santiago is now blaming the surgeon for the fatal complications, claiming they convinced Viviane to undergo more surgeries than she initially wanted. He alleges that the doctor offered a discount for additional surgeries. He told Brazilian media: "She went to the surgeon to have just breast surgery and abdominal liposuction. But he convinced her that she also needed liposuction on her arms and back. When she returned from the consultation, she said the doctor offered a better price and that everything would go well, so she would do more." Santiago also claims that the surgeon, who was paid £42,000 in cash, disappeared when Viviane began to have problems. The grieving husband said: "He saw that she was in bad shape but went to Rio de Janeiro. He left her and did not provide support. When I contacted him and told him she was in serious condition in intensive care, he said she would be fine, that it was just a matter of time, that she would get better, and he calmed me down. The family sees it as an injustice that he left her and went on a trip while she was in that condition." According to Santiago, the cosmetic surgeon visited Viviane in intensive care just hours before her death. When local media asked about Viviane's death, the surgeon refused to comment.
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