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Ex-Miss Argentina dies after plastic surgery

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-12-02 10:33

Ex-Miss Argentina dies after plastic surgery
File photo of Solange Magnano. [Agencies] 

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: A 38-year-old former Miss Argentina has died from complications after undergoing cosmetic surgery on her buttocks.

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Solange Magnano, a mother of twins who won the crown in 1994, died of a pulmonary embolism Sunday after three days in critical condition following a gluteoplasty in Buenos Aires.

Close friend Roberto Piazza said the procedure involved injections and the liquid "went to her lungs and brain."

"A woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightly firmer behind," he said.

Magnano's burial Monday was shown on Argentine television.

Dr. Gonzalo Cortes y Tristan said she arrived at his hospital with an acute respiratory deficiency. Her condition deteriorated until she suffered the embolism.