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Mother-of-three Louise Harvey, 36, of Norwich, died on 5 July 2018 following the operation at a Transform Cosmetic Surgery clinic in London.<\/p>\n
Her mother said Ms Harvey had breast surgery and a tummy tuck as she was told it would be cheaper together.<\/p>\n
Post-mortem tests found she died of a blood clot in her lungs.<\/p>\n
The beauty therapist’s cause of death was recorded as bilateral pulmonary embolism with secondary causes listed as breast augmentation and abdominoplasty (tummy tuck).<\/p>\n
The inquest in Norwich heard her family had a history of blood clots, however, Ms Harvey’s mother, Linda Harvey, said in a statement her daughter was sent home without blood thinners.<\/p>\n
“If Louise had been advised about this I would have expected her to tell me,” she said.<\/p>\n
She said her daughter had been advised by the clinic to have both procedures “as it would be cheaper”.<\/p>\n
Ms Harvey was sent home two days after the three-hour operation on 17 June and had a follow-up appointment on 26 June.<\/p>\n
However, she collapsed on 3 July and died two days later.<\/p>\n
“Louise’s organs were giving up,” her mother said. “She had blood clots in her heart and lungs.”<\/p>\n
Norfolk coroner Yvonne Blake asked Ms Harvey’s consultant plastic surgeon, Manish Sinha, if he had been “aware of her family history, her sister having had a clot and her grandmother”.<\/p>\n
“No ma’am, I was not,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said it was not his usual practice to read a pre-assessment form completed by a patient with a nurse – in which Miss Harvey’s family history of DVT (deep vein thrombosis) was recorded – “unless specific things have been flagged up to me”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[803,805,2221,938,319],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breast-implants","tag-cosmetic-surgery","tag-norwich","tag-plastic-surgeon","tag-tummy-tuck"],"yoast_head":"\n