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| 'Butt lift' inquest: Leah Cambridge had pulmonary embolism | 'Butt lift' inquest: Leah Cambridge had pulmonary embolism |
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| A beautician suffered a massive pulmonary embolism while having a cosmetic "Brazilian butt lift" surgery, a coroner has said. | |
| Leah Cambridge, 29, from Leeds, died at a private hospital in Turkey in 2018. | Leah Cambridge, 29, from Leeds, died at a private hospital in Turkey in 2018. |
| Her partner Scott Franks said she had been "paranoid" about her body and was keen to have the operation, which transfers fat to the buttocks from elsewhere in the body. | Her partner Scott Franks said she had been "paranoid" about her body and was keen to have the operation, which transfers fat to the buttocks from elsewhere in the body. |
| Senior Coroner Kevin McLoughlin is now asking for a UK ban on the procedure. | |
| Wakefield Coroner's Court previously heard the mother-of-three died from a fat clot caused by the operation. | |
| Mr McLoughlin will write to the government asking it to consider banning the procedure. | |
| He said: "I believe that our foremost duty is to protect our citizens from what maybe is considered to be their own folly. | |
| "If the approach that I am considering involves a paternalistic despotism, the process of curtailing individual freedom may be considered to be a price worth paying. | |
| "What's more, if the UK takes a stance this may affect the prevailing view from other countries." | |
| What does buttock augmentation surgery involve? | What does buttock augmentation surgery involve? |
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