| Patient Claims Liposuction lead to flesh eating bug |
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| Friday, 09 February 2007 | |
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She alleges that after the liposuction procedure, she went into shock and started haemorrhaging at the wound, requiring a visit to the emergency room. "I had about three days of excruciating pain, which they couldn't figure out what was going on until they found that possibly it could have been a bad infection that was setting in underneath the skin," she alleges. In the lawsuit, she also claims that the liposuction and subsequent infection left her with scarring. "I would describe them as me going on vacation one year and being on the beach and somebody thought I had a shark attack," she said. Streptococcus Pyogenes is the cause of necrotizing fasciitis, more commonly known as the flesh eating bacteria. It can originate in a small exterior wound, such as a surgical incision, and once it takes hold, it leads to excruciating pain for the sufferer. The symptoms are normally severe pain in the area, with fever and a distinct redness of the injured area. This redness can move from the infected site quite quickly and within a day, turns blue in colour, with blistering occurring. The blisters contain sickly yellow-blue fluid. If the blisters burst, there will be a leaking of a foul smelling pus and there may be significant blood loss. If not arrested, the infection will normally lead to gangrene setting in within four days, and the skin starts to separate from the flesh. A complication such as the one alleged in the lawsuit is extremely rare in liposuction procedures. While occasionally the incision wound may be subject to infection, this is treatable and rarely leads to a condition such as necrotizing fasciitis. Dr. Anderson is understood to be contesting the lawsuit and has not made a public comment on it. |
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