Radio host Betty Pino, one of the most popular voices on Miami radio, died due to complications during the cosmetic surgery to remove her buttock implants she had gotten years before, her autopsy revealed.
According to the information gathered by the autopsy by the Miami-Dade County Forensic Department, which El Nuevo Herald was able to exclusively access, the popular radio host died of sepsis afer complications arose when her surgeon attempted to remove the silicone implants that had been bothering her.
According to the same newspaper, the procedure to remove her implants was carried out last June, however, a month after undergoing surgery, she was diagnosed with sepsis, and her body began to develop gangrene. The report reveals that her doctors had to amputate her hands and feet, but by then she was in a coma.
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When the Ecuadorian radio star died last August 7th at 65, celebrities like Ricardo Montaner, Shakira, Gloria Estefan, Luis Fonsi, José Luis Perales, Julio Iglesias, Willy Chirino and Dyango, among others, expressed their condolences over the loss of the radio host, reported the Mexican newspaper El Universal.
Since that moment, detectives from the Miami-Dade Police Department keep an investigation open to clarify the death of the host.
Pino Had Requested Many Surgeons To Remove The Hardened Tissue From Her Buttocks
According to the 17-page autopsy report obtained by El Nuevo Herald last week, the radio host had gotten a pair of hard plastic implants in her buttocks 20 years ago. 10 years after, she changed those implants for saline implants, which caused her discomfort, and four years ago the host decided to inject her buttocks with silicone.
"As time passed, the tissue in her buttocks hardened and deformed, which was very painful. She had requested many surgeons to remove the hardened tissue from her buttocks because sitting down was very painful. However, she didn't find any doctor who would carry out the procedure because everyone feared the risks and possible complications", the quoted report reads.
Her Surgeon's Version
Constantino Mendieta, buttock reconstruction specialist, the surgeon that operated on Pino in June, told El Nuevo Herald that the surgery the host underwent wasn't so much a cosmetic surgery as reconstructive surgery, and denies being related to the decease of Betty Pino.
"The surgery has nothing to do with that. That happened a month after. There's a lot of misinformation in the report", the surgeon said, quoted by El Nuevo Herald.
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