With Dr. Donda West’s
autopsy scheduled to be performed tomorrow (November 14), several
plastic surgeons are speaking out in the wake of her sudden death,
shedding light on what may have caused the procedure to go terribly
wrong. West passed away Saturday, November 10 after undergoing a cosmetic procedure.

According to New York’s Daily News, 58-year-old Donda
West likely suffered uncontrolled bleeding while recovering at home
from a combination breast reduction and tummy tuck procedure.

The Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Andre Aboolian told TMZ
that he consulted with Dr.West in June, before she opted to work with
another surgeon. He reportedly told West he would not perform the
operation unless she received a cardiac stress test, because
of her age and a preexisting heart condition that he believe could have
led to a heart attack.

Aboolian also said that West asked him whether she could recuperate at home. “Donda was pushing me, ‘Can I go home after surgery?’ But I told her it just doesn’t work that way,” Dr. Aboolian told the Daily News.
“The most dangerous time after surgery is the first 48 hours. I told
her you have to go to an overnight care facility with nurses who look
after you.

Aboolian added that West, who he characterized as a “sweet” woman,
expressed some reservations to him about having the surgery. “She said she didn’t deserve to have this done,” Aboolian
remembered. “She kept asking, ‘Do I really need this?’ It’s not like
she was being vain. It was heavy on her body.”

It is statistically rare for death to result from cosmetic surgery,
such instances occur in only 1 in 51,459 operations according to the
Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

“If, for God’s sake, the surgeon tells you it’s too risky, don’t find someone who will do it for you,” Dr. Richard D’Amico, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, told the Daily News.

The plastic surgeon who claims to have performed West’s surgery has also stepped forward to speak on the tragedy. Dr. Jan Adams told TMZ that West’s death was
impossible to predict and may have been caused by a heart attack,
pulmonary embolism, or massive vomiting. Dr. Adams says West consulted
with him over a period of four months. Some of his accounts of her
coincide with Dr. Aboolian’s, particularly that West changed her mind
about the procedure a number of times, sometimes greenlighting the
surgery and sometimes halting it; however, Adams disputes Dr.
Aboolian’s comments that he refused to conduct the surgery because of a
pre-existing condition that West had.

“He is sleazy and manipulating the truth to elevate his own importance,” Adams told TMZ of Aboolian.

Dr. Adams maintains he did nothing wrong.