5 LIFE-THREATENING RISK FACTORS OF LIPOSUCTION

  • Adverse reaction to anesthesia
  • Excessive bleeding
  • Kidney and heart problems from shifts in fluid levels as fluids are being injected and suctioned out
  • Infection
  • Fat embolism (pieces of loosened fat that may break away and become trapped in a blood vessel and gather in the lungs or travel to the brain)
-- Information courtesy of the Mayo Clinic