Chinese woman left paralysed, in coma after botched beauty treatment
27-year-old suffered embolism after unqualified therapist injected fat cells into a blood vessel serving her brain
A Chinese woman is recovering in hospital after a botched beauty treatment left her in a coma and paralysed down her left side, state television reported.
The 27-year-old, who was not named, visited the Sumei clinic in Nanning, capital of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, to undergo a procedure to have fat injected into her right temple, China Central Television reported on Sunday.
The person conducting the treatment, however, was not qualified to do so, and after extracting fat from the woman’s thigh made a serious error while injecting it back into her right temple. Some of the fat cells entered a blood vessel serving the brain and caused an embolism, the report said.
The woman fell into a coma and was rushed to the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, where she was found also to have suffered hemiplegia – paralysis – to her left side as a result of the increased pressure on her brain caused by the fat injection.