Breast implant leads to fatal silicone embolism
Doctors thought the woman had pneumonia, say case report authors
A 44-year-old woman with chronic silicone embolism syndrome from a leaky breast implant died after doctors initially treated her for pneumonia.
Around 14 years earlier, the Colombian-born woman returned to Colombia for silicone breast implants and liposuction, doctors from Forest Hill Hospital in New York wrote in BMJ Case Reports.
