UK plastic surgeons to vote on banning 'Kim Kardashian-inspired' Brazilian butt lifts over safety fears

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Concern about the procedure, which has been rising in popularity over the past five years, follows a number of cases of serious illness and death.

An expert panel will assess the latest evidence and decide whether to uphold previous guidance it issued in 2018, which strongly warned surgeons against performing the surgery because of its high fatality rate. If the guidance is upheld it will essentially ban the procedure in the UK, though surgeons could in theory choose to ignore the recommendation.

The surgery, which can cost in excess of £6,000 in Britain, involves taking fat from another part of the patient's body and injecting it into the buttocks, to increase their size and roundness. But there is a risk of injecting the fat into large veins, after which it can travel to the heart or brain, causing a"fat embolism" and illness or death, according to the plastic surgeons' body.

"I am still concerned about patient death," Harris told CNN, saying people were opting for the procedure to achieve a rounded look or a Kim Kardashian-style figure."We don't know what it's going to look like in 20 years' time when we've pumped two liters of fat into someone's buttocks -- that's unknown.

 

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