Rivers 'died of low blood oxygen'

Joan Rivers died from low blood oxygen during a routine medical procedure to check out voice changes and reflux, the medical examiner’s office has ruled.

Rivers 'died of low blood oxygen'

Joan Rivers died from low blood oxygen during a routine medical procedure to check out voice changes and reflux, the medical examiner’s office has ruled.

The comedian, who was 81, died on September 4 after she’d been in hospital for about a week when she went into cardiac arrest during the procedure at a doctor’s office.

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