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You can help by participating in our "I Support" program, allowing us to keep offering readers access to our incisive coverage of local news, food and culture with no paywalls. Kyle Munzenrieder. Contact: Kyle Munzenrieder. Follow: Twitter: Munzenrieder. Betty Pino, 65, underwent surgery in June to remove silicone that had been injected into her buttocks four years earlier.
She died on August 7 after being admitted to hospital with sepsis caused by a bacterial infection. In the days before her death the infection had spread and doctors amputated her hands and feet. According to the Miami Herald , the autopsy report states that Pino had received 'hard' implants in her buttocks 20 years earlier. A decade later, she had them removed and replaced with saline implants, which caused her pain when she sat down.
Four years ago Pino had the saline implants removed and had silicone injected into her buttocks. It is illegal to inject silicone into the buttocks in the United States due to the likelihood of serious complications. The silicone can harden and cause chronic inflammation, or drift and spread down the legs. It can also cause blood clots and infection. Deaths from black-market buttocks injections have been reported in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada and New York and despite a lack of official data due to the back-room nature of the procedure, there is anecdotal evidence it's becoming more common.
The Miami Herald reports that Pino sought out a doctor to remove the silicone but could not find a one who would perform the operation for fear of the risk of complication. He operated on Pino on June 14 and she went home that same day.
Following her surgery, Pino's surgical wounds became infected. Music lover: Pino, seen here in the studio with singer Willy Chirino, is credited with helping to launch the careers of many Latin artists. Pino fell into a coma on July 17 and developed septic shock and a huge infection. Doctors amputated her hands and feet on August 6. The following day, Pino's family elected to switch off her life-support machines and she passed away at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Distinguished career: Ecuadorian-born Pino center began her radio career began in The Miami Herald reports that Dr Mendieta refutes the findings of the autopsy. Miami's independent source of local news and culture. Last week, the Miami-Dade medical examiner released a scathing report condemning the medical treatment of local Spanish-language radio personality Betty Pino, who died in August at age 65 after wounds from a procedure to remove silicone from her buttocks became infected.
In that report, Pino's family said they were considering whether to sue the suddenly embattled Constantino Mendieta, one of South Florida's most prominent plastic surgeons, who wielded the scalpel.
If that happens, it definitely wouldn't be the first time Mendieta has faced a lawsuit over a botched procedure. In , a woman named Amelia Garibaldi walked into 4Beauty, Mendieta's clinic, where he performed a "tummy tuck" and liposuction on her.
Everything apparently went swell, so Garibaldi returned a year later and received what Mendieta referred to as "facial rejuvenation. It got infected. Even after treatment, she "continued to struggle with the infection to the left side of her face," the lawsuit says. Afterward, she claimed, she suffered "disfigurement to the face," so she sued Mendieta for malpractice.
A Miami court later dismissed the suit. In June , another woman, Rebecca Pineda, sued Mendieta after he allegedly left inside her left breast the "tip" of a medical instrument colloquially called a "Bovie," which doctors use to make incisions during surgery. Constantino Mendieta, a specialist in sculpting glutes, says he performed a reconstructive procedure, not a cosmetic one, and says the report has the name of another doctor in it.
It calls me Dr. Rivera which I am not Dr. A month later, Pino was admitted to Doctor's Hospital in Miami with flu-like symptoms, where she was diagnosed with sepsis.
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