Cosmetic surgery link to death confirmed
Kay Cregan, aged 42, died after a face lift performed in the Manhattan clinic of Dr Michael Sachs went tragically wrong.
A report by the New York Medical Examiner yesterday said a second autopsy revealed she died from complications as a result of the surgery.
Mrs Cregan had travelled to New York in March this year to have the cosmetic surgery as a surprise for her husband, Liam.
Her husband is understood to have engaged an Irish lawyer based in New York to pursue Dr Sachs in the courts.
The first autopsy results had proved inconclusive. But the second autopsy into the death of the Croom woman found she died from therapeutic complications as a result of the surgery.
A statement yesterday from the medical examiner said Mrs Cregan died suddenly after undergoing facial reconstruction, surgery to the eyelids and lips.
A spokesperson for the examiner said: “The manner of her death was due to therapeutic complications as a result of the surgery.”
The mother of two sons, aged eight and six, died on March 17, after she travelled specially for the face lift.
She did not know Dr Sachs was the most sued doctor in New York having settled 33 malpractice suits since 1995.
Mrs Cregan, a senior official with Limerick City Council, was also unaware the New York State Department had banned Dr Sachs from performing certain plastic surgery procedures without the supervision of another surgery.
Mrs Cregan contacted Dr Sachs on the internet after reading about another Irish patient who had received free facial surgery to promote the doctor.
Dr Sachs promoted himself as a celebrity cosmetic surgeon and had made an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show. He also appeared on TV3’s Ireland AM two years ago and claimed he had carried out 42,000 successful nose jobs.
Dr Sachs has maintained that the investigations into the death would show he did nothing wrong.
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