The Los Angeles County coroner recently disclosed the cause of Lisa Marie Presley’s death several months after her passing. An autopsy report obtained by PEOPLE revealed that the 54-year-old singer-songwriter passed away in January due to complications arising from a small bowel obstruction resulting from previous surgery.
The report highlighted that the obstruction was a strangulated small bowel caused by adhesions that formed after her bariatric surgery. Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. Juan Carrillo noted that this complication is a well-known long-term consequence of such surgical procedures. Toxicology reports also indicated the presence of oxycodone, buprenorphine, and the antipsychotic drug quetiapine in the singer’s bloodstream at the time of her passing.
Dr. Terry Dubrow explains the dangers of Bariatric surgery
Dr. Terry Dubrow, a plastic surgeon, and brain behind the American reality television, Botched, highlighted in a July 14 interview with TMZ the potential dangers associated with surgical procedures especially bariatric surgery, which was indicated in Elvis Presley’s daughter’s autopsy report.
“I have read Lisa Marie’s autopsy report. She had the most advanced kind. They made a new connection between her stomach and her intestines, and the most common complication when you go inside the abdomen and do that kind of surgery is that scar tissue forms,” he explained. “Occasionally, any time in the future when you’ve had this type of bypass bariatric surgery, those adhesions can block parts of the small intestine, called a small bowel obstruction.”
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He also shared that if bowel obstruction persists for an extended period, it could lead to the death of the intestines due to strangulation. “What’s really scary,” Dr. Dubrow confessed, “is 915 centimeters, which means 30 feet of her small intestines had died before she made it to the hospital.”
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Dr. Terry Dubrow warns the public against combining bariatric surgery with medications
During the interview, Dubrow expressed concerns about people who pursue rapid weight loss methods, including injections and intestinal surgery. The surgeon further explained that combining weight loss medications and surgery could have devastating consequences.
“If you’re going to go on the Ozempic-type drugs and you get intestinal pain,” Dubrow shared, “you get stomach bloating, you get pain, you drink alcohol with this, you’re predisposed to intestinal obstruction and pancreatitis.”