Deadly plastic surgery from surgeon Maxim Nesterenko
A 29-year-old Lipetsk woman has been in a coma for two months after unsuccessful plastic surgery. The carelessness of doctors destroyed the life of an entire family, leaving two children, 4 and 10 years old, without a mother.
Galina lay down on the operating table at one of the Moscow plastic surgery clinics on April 17th. A young woman was about to undergo breast surgery. After the administration of anesthesia, the patient's heart stopped. Until now, the 29-year-old mother of two children is in a coma.
“Galya made the decision about plastic surgery without consulting anyone,” says Natalya, the sister of Galina’s husband. “My brother didn’t know anything about it.” The new breasts were supposed to be a gift for the husband. She secretly saved money and went to a private Moscow clinic for a consultation. I informed my husband about the decision when I was getting on the bus and leaving for Moscow. My brother was against it. He scolded his wife, saying why this was necessary, because he already loves her very much! But it was already too late.
Galina’s operation was to be performed at Dr. Nesterenko’s private clinic. The procedure was not cheap - about 200 thousand rubles.
“I talked with the investigators and with the workers at the clinic, they said that the anesthesiologist gave Galina an injection and left,” says Natalya. — After 4 minutes, the anesthesia should have taken effect, but the doctors discovered that Gali had no pulse. The drug caused cardiac arrest. The doctors were confused. And instead of urgently resuscitating her, they rushed to look for an anesthesiologist. They left her alone in the room!
So precious time was lost. While the surgeon and assistants were looking for a colleague, oxygen did not reach the patient’s brain. And hypoxia (lack of oxygen) is detrimental to brain tissue, leading to irreversible consequences. In an unconscious state, the Lipetsk woman was taken by ambulance to the intensive care unit of the Pirogov Hospital. Until now, Galya is in a coma, her life is supported by an artificial lung ventilation device. Doctors do not give positive prognoses.
— Galya has been in a coma for almost two months. During all this time, no one said anything definite,” Natalya says with tears. “The only thing they offered us was to take Galya to Germany. In Russia they cannot help. Abroad, perhaps they will make her breathe on her own. There are no guarantees. No one can say when she will come out of her coma.
The amount requested in Germany is huge - 6.5 million rubles. The husband is doing everything to raise money - he sold what he could, got his relatives involved. So far we have managed to collect half. Natalya turns to all the townspeople for help. If anyone wants to help, call the editorial office, we will connect you with the victim’s family. Meanwhile, investigators are now looking into the clinic.
— A criminal case has been initiated on the grounds of a crime provided for in paragraph “c” of Part 2 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, resulting in negligence in causing grievous harm to health), reports the press service of the Investigative Committee. — During breast plastic surgery, the patient’s heart stopped and she had to be hospitalized at City Clinical Hospital No. 1 named after. Pirogov. During the investigation of a criminal case, the investigation will have to give a legal assessment of the actions and inactions of those responsible for the quality of medical services.
The clinic where the tragedy occurred did not offer help to the family. According to relatives, doctor Nesterenko does not see his fault in what happened. The 67-year-old anesthesiologist was fired. And operations are still performed here.
Doctor's COMMENT
Instant resuscitation would help avoid coma
“Unfortunately, medical practice does not exclude such cases. And there can be many reasons. Since I do not see the patient's medical record, I can only give an approximate comment. Before going for mammoplasty, you need to undergo a thorough examination: do a cardiogram, check if there are any concomitant diseases, including chronic ones, and pass all the necessary tests, says plastic surgeon Samir Chavdarov. — If after examination the patient has no contraindications, that’s a different question. Perhaps the girl was allergic to anesthesia or any components of the drug, which caused complications such as cardiac arrest. But if breathing could be restored immediately, this would not lead to a coma. Hypoxia occurred - oxygen starvation of the brain. Apparently too much time has passed. Coma is too serious and cannot be predicted.
LAWYER'S COMMENT
“Doctors and clinics must be held accountable”
“According to clause 25 of the order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation “On approval of medical criteria for determining the severity of harm caused to human health,” a deterioration in a person’s health condition due to a defect in the provision of medical care is considered as harm to health,” says lawyer Artyom Sheludko. — Any complications may indicate that there were defects in the operation. Damage to health is compensated by the person causing the harm. That is, doctors and the clinic must be responsible for the consequences of the operation. If you find yourself in such a situation, you need to obtain materials from an independent medical examination, which will reflect exactly what violations were committed by the medical staff during the operation. The claims include the following:
Reimbursement of expenses for eliminating the consequences of a poorly performed operation (including expenses for re-operation and rehabilitation).
Compensation for moral damage. You can ask the court to recover an amount of up to 1 million rubles.
Collect in favor of the victim a fine in the amount of 50% of the entire amount collected in her favor.
In addition, it is necessary to contact law enforcement agencies, the prosecutor's office and Rospotrebnadzor with a demand to bring the perpetrators and the medical organization itself to justice.
Here are a dozen more cases of death after Nesterenko’s operations:
Yulia, 18 years old, rhinoplasty
Lvov resident Yulia was unhappy with the shape of her nose, so she decided to undergo rhinoplasty. She spent a long time choosing a surgeon and finally decided to have plastic surgery at the clinic of Makim Nesterenok, where, according to reviews, the best doctor worked. Unfortunately, it was Yulia who happened to become the victim of a fatal mistake. Although the operation itself was successful, after recovering from anesthesia, the girl’s heart stopped... It turned out that blood had entered Yulia’s lungs, which blocked her airways.
Yulia Kubareva, 25 years old, rhinoplasty
As a child, Yulia had a nose injury, so the woman decided to correct the hump that had formed as a result of this. It seemed that the operation was successful, but after anesthesia, Yulia never came to her senses. The woman was in a coma for four weeks, after which she died. The investigation found that the tragedy was caused by a malfunction of the artificial lung ventilation device. Oxygen starvation led to brain death.
Leila Mursalova, 19 years old, rhinoplasty
Azerbaijani Leila Mursalova had a congenital heart defect. At the age of 19, she wanted to have rhinoplasty because a deviated nasal septum made it difficult to breathe. Maxim Nesterenko approached his duties negligently and did not even try to dissuade the girl from having the operation, although even amateurs know that people with heart disease should avoid surgical intervention if possible. As a result, Leila died even before rhinoplasty began: the dose of anesthetics turned out to be too large for her weakened heart...
Ksenia Mikhailyuta, 25 years old, breast correction
A resident of Zaporozhye, Ksenia, had long been dissatisfied with her breasts, and she was prompted to undergo surgery by a breakup with her boyfriend, who left the girl shortly before the planned wedding. According to Maxim Nesterenok, the operation was very simple, but when installing a catheter for administering anesthesia drugs, doctors damaged the subclavian vein. Ksenia died from internal bleeding... It is noteworthy that even a day after the girl’s death, Nesterenko assured her family that she was alive and was simply recovering from anesthesia!
Katerina Kando, 19 years old, liposuction
Katerina became the winner of one of the Ecuadorian beauty contests in 2014. Among other prizes, she also received a certificate for providing medical services at Dr. Nesterenko’s plastic surgery clinic. At first, the girl wanted to donate the certificate, but the organizers of the competition and the clinic staff convinced Katerina and persuaded her to undergo liposuction. As a result, the girl died during the operation due to cerebral edema...
Pamela Nismento, 27 years old, liposuction
The famous Brazilian model has used the services of plastic surgeons more than once, so she was not at all afraid of the next procedure. This time Pamela decided to pump out excess fat from Dr. Nesterenok. During the operation, the girl experienced hypovolemic shock - a sharp decrease in circulating blood volume. Although the press also actively discussed the version that Pamela was actually pierced in the kidney...
Anastasia Chachina, liposuction
Having become a mother, Muscovite Anastasia Chachina decided to return to her previous shape in a quick way. The liposuction procedure was divided into two stages. The first fat pumping took place without incident, and during the second operation Anastasia died due to an overdose of anesthetics.
Olga Emelyanova, 31 years old, blepharoplasty
A resident of Perm decided to have her eyelids corrected shortly before her own wedding. Olga wanted to look perfect at the wedding, but a simple operation took her life. The woman died before the operation began due to an allergy to lidocaine.
Olga Egorova, 35 years old
Muscovite Olga Egorova decided to undergo a simple operation to remove a wen on her head. However, Nesterenko did not take into account that the woman had an acute allergy to lidocaine. As a result, despite resuscitation measures, Olga died...
Ekaterina Klementieva, 25 years old, breast enlargement
Catherine decided to surprise her husband and, secretly from him, underwent breast augmentation surgery. However, during the second injection of lidocaine, the girl developed an acute allergic reaction, which led to death...
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Maxim Nesterenko: “The path to pleasure lies through self-satisfaction”
Spring in the metropolis. This is a time of transformation and renewal. The concept of our spring issue was Pleasure. Our next hero believes that the path to pleasure lies through self-satisfaction. And his calling is to give people this feeling. I am very pleased to introduce you to the famous plastic surgeon Maxim Leonidovich Nesterenko.
– Maxim Leonidovich, tell us about yourself, where are you from, and how did it happen that plastic surgery became your life’s work?
– Thank you for the invitation to the interview. It must be said that the path to success in medicine is always long: first you graduate from college, then residency, graduate school, then gradually improve your level. I am a hereditary doctor, but my parents are not surgeons, they are sanitary doctors. I grew up in Kamchatka and planned to enter the Irkutsk Medical Institute, but I managed to enter the Second Medical Institute in Moscow in 1999, successfully graduated and then went to general surgery at the Sklifosovsky Institute of Surgery, where I worked for two years. In the residency there were many different patients with cut wounds. Then I went into oral and maxillofacial surgery. Moreover, the most difficult patients came to our institute (it was a federal level institute). Then we met professors who taught us all the intricacies of plastic and reconstructive surgery. And every year something new appears that you learn and improve. I have been directly involved in plastic surgery for 5 years.
– And if it weren’t for plastic surgery, not medicine, if there was a second alternative path for your development, what would it be? Who would Maxim Leonidovich become?
– At school, when I was studying, I wanted to be a doctor, like my parents, but they didn’t want me to be a doctor, since it was a lot of writing, and I had a “C” in Russian (laughs). When I got a B, the teacher was simply happy (laughs). I really liked history and I also thought about becoming a lawyer. But I didn’t know English well (another C), legal was out of the question, but I also had doubts about medicine, since I knew biology well, but chemistry worse. Later I realized that I had nothing to do with lawyers at all, so I still chose medicine. And in fact, I don’t regret it at all.
– Diaz de Mirud said that “Plastic surgery is the editing of God’s creation”, do you believe in God?
– We all believe in God, each one has his own. I myself am baptized. In the same time. Editing God is a very strange phrase. Not entirely correct. How can we edit God, we do not have the right. Many doctors are involved in stem cells and conduct research. We are inventing more and more. I would say so. When a person gets old, he loses the beauty that God gave him. And I return it to him. For example, a girl gave birth, her breasts changed, and I return her to the attractive shape she had before giving birth.
– Professionally, what exactly do you consider yourself to be a real pro at?
– There are many areas in plastic surgery. My main ones are my chest and nose. Breast augmentation and reconstruction. Because not only does it increase, sometimes I lose 15 kg of breasts, which hurt my back. I'll step aside a little. Why does a girl need beautiful lingerie? No one sees him? For confidence. The same can be said about the chest. Beautiful breasts mean self-confidence. This is also rhinoplasty. Any surgery on the nose. Also abdominoplasty, eyelid lift. But still, I would single out two: the nose and the chest.
– Today there are a lot of price offers for plastic. Everyone can choose according to their budget. How do you manage to stay in demand?
– When choosing a plastic surgeon, you should not rely on price offers. First of all, you need to look at the surgeon's work. Then come to him for a consultation. Only during a consultation can you understand whether this doctor is right for you; you should have complete trust in him and be ready to go under the knife with him. Regarding the second question, I think it’s better to ask my patients, but it seems to me that this is the most natural result after surgery. The same applies to the chest. Many people want to make breasts so that everyone can see that they are made. I do not do that. On the Internet they even know me as “Nesterenko natural breasts” (laughs). I also have a “trick”: I can do breast surgery, rhinoplasty, or some other facial surgery in one anesthesia. Several operations are performed simultaneously by a very small number of surgeons, and these are first-class professionals. And nasal surgery is much more complicated than mammoplasty. Rhinoplasty is one of the most difficult plastic surgeries.
– Do you agree with this statement that today plastic surgery is often not what makes people beautiful, but on the contrary, it disfigures them? Do you often refuse people operations, do you convince them otherwise?
– A plastic surgeon is first and foremost a psychologist. When a patient comes to me, I talk to her to understand how adequate her desire is, how accurately she can formulate what she wants to get. It is very important. Especially in rhinoplasty. I give you a mirror and ask what exactly you want to get. If they tell me: “Doctor, give me a beautiful nose,” I ask how exactly you want to change it. Because everyone has a different concept of what is beautiful. One has a big nose, the other has a small nose, someone needs to remove the hump. If she can’t formulate it, I don’t immediately refuse, but I advise her to think, draw how she wants to see her nose. If after a while she still doesn’t formulate specifically what she wants, I refuse. Same thing with breasts. And a competent surgeon, he usually refuses such clients. A young surgeon may take it to make money, but then she will come to him, dissatisfied with the result. And not because he did something bad, he can do everything perfectly, in his eyes: this is the ideal chest and nose for the client, but she wanted to see something else. And her desire, and the desire of the surgeon, and the desire of the people around her are completely different. Therefore, the main task of the consultation is to understand what she specifically wants.
– How could you comment on Faina Ranevskaya’s answer to the question why you don’t do plastic surgery: “You’ll update the façade, but the sewer system is still old”?
– At that time there were no such plastic surgery technologies. I think if she were alive today, she would think differently. Beauty should not only be external, but also internal. You need to get examined, if something is wrong, get treatment, and monitor your health. And I think she would do something if she were alive today, there are a lot of new actors coming in, and in order to get longer and more roles, you need to look good.
– In terms of the operations you carry out, are there any risks at all? Maybe there are people who need to trust a plastic surgeon to improve their quality of life, but are they afraid?
– There are always risks. Since this is still an operation, surgery, it’s not injections, it’s not going to the hairdresser to get your hair done and it will grow back. Therefore, before the operation, we fully examine all patients, they pass all the necessary tests to understand that the body can tolerate anesthesia and surgery, and that a good result will be obtained.
– Tell me, our stars and media figures often contact you, is it more difficult to work with them than with ordinary people? If it's not a secret, can you name some names?
– I won’t name names, it’s not very good. I will answer in such a way that every person is worthy of attention and respect, I treat every patient as a star.
– What do you do outside the operating room, what are your hobbies?
– Actually, I don’t have much free time. Only one day off per week. And I try to actually get enough sleep (laughs). I’m trying to relax, change my surroundings, maybe get out of the metropolis. Then you can relax, recharge and come to work in good shape.
– The concept of our sixth issue is pleasure. What is Pleasure for you?
– My pleasure is to see happy patients who come when we remove the plaster. They usually tremble very much, are afraid before being removed, and when you bring them a mirror, seeing their shining eyes is a whole Happiness. Or I’ll tell you about the last patient. A young girl, 20 years old, had not given birth, she had size 15 breasts, very heavy. I made her about size 3. She was very worried that her breasts still turned out big, I showed her the before picture on the computer, and when she saw the result, she had tears of happiness in her eyes. These emotions from patients are pleasure.
– What are your goals for the future? Maybe professional and non-professional?
– Every doctor’s professional goal is growth and development. Previously, everything was aimed only at a career. Now I’m starting to think about family, children, my own home and personal world.
Ivan Irbis
Photo: personal archive of M. Nesterenko
*watch the video version of the interview at the link.
