A plastic surgeon known as Dr Bumbum is on the run in Brazil after a woman died hours after receiving injections to enlarge her bottom.
HSBC bank manager Lilian Calixto, 46, travelled to Rio de Janeiro to undergo the procedure at the home of renowned surgeon to the stars Dr Denis Furtado.
Dubbed Dr Bumbum, Furtado is a regular on Brazilian TV and has more than 647,000 followers on Instagram.
He boasts of performing more than 8,000 butt enlargement surgeries, with the rich and famous among his clients.
Lilian Calixto (right) travelled to Rio de Janeiro to undergo the procedure at the home of renowned surgeon to the stars Dr Denis Furtado (left)
Married mother-of-two Ms Calixto, from Cuiaba, central Brazil, reportedly arrived at Furtado’s apartment in the upmarket Barra da Tijuca district of Rio on Saturday night.
It is believed she had booked to have PMMA acrylic fillers injected to increase the size of her buttocks, as well as a hormone implant to treat symptoms of the menopause.
Soon after receiving the injections at 10pm, she reportedly fell ill and started gasping for air, and her condition quickly deteriorated.
Furtado took her to the local Barra D’Or hospital, where she was admitted at 11pm in an ‘extremely severe condition, unresponsive to manoeuvres’.
Despite the efforts of hospital staff, she died at 1am the next morning.
Married mother-of-two Ms Calixto, from Cuiaba, central Brazil, reportedly arrived at Furtado’s apartment in the upmarket Barra da Tijuca district of Rio on Saturday night
According to a source at the hospital, the surgeon inadvertently injected the product into one of Ms Calixto’s arteries, resulting in the formation of a clot that would have ruptured in her heart.
Police have arrested the nurse who assisted in the procedure, as well as Furtado’s girlfriend.
Furtado is considered a fugitive of justice after officers were unable to locate him after a judge issued an arrest warrant for the surgeon.
On his Instagram page, Furtado has posted dozens of ‘before and after’ photos of bottoms of women on whom he has performed butt lift surgery.
A recent video shows him with Flavia Tamario, a contestant on last year’s popular Miss Bumbum competition.
He kisses Flavia and calls her his ‘most grateful patient’ after she says: ‘I’m here with Dr Bumbum. I’ll be this Wednesday on the Superpop channel, realising my dream’.
Dubbed Dr Bumbum, Furtado is a regular on Brazilian TV and has more than 647,000 followers on Instagram
And on his Facebook page, Furtado boasts: ‘I have gained my different nicknames and the most recent is DR BUMBUM and that makes me very proud.’
Ms Calixto’s husband, Osmar Jamberci, told Brazil’s Extra newspaper that she had told family and friends she was going to Rio to have the hormone implant, but didn’t mention the butt enlargement procedure.
The couple, who had been married for 20 years, have a 13-year-old daughter. Ms Calixto also had a 23-year-old son from a previous relationship.
He said: ‘She went on Saturday night and was due to return that night, it was going to be a quick thing.
‘She told the family that she was going to have an implant because of the menopause.
‘At 8.30am on Sunday, this doctor called me telling me there had been a complication and that they needed someone to release her body.
‘It was the only time I spoke to him, and after that he disappeared.’
Ms Calixto’s stepdaughter, Alessandro Jambert, told Brazil’s Extra newspaper she was the only one who knew about the buttom surgery and said she had chose to have the procedure with Furtado ‘on the recommendation of others’.
She said: ‘Her friends did it, liked it and recommended him. He is a really famous doctor, and she was going to have it done in his own apartment.’
The surgeon inadvertently injected the product into one of Ms Calixto’s (left and far right) arteries, resulting in the formation of a clot that would have ruptured in her heart, a hospital source said
A friend, who asked not to be named, said that Ms Calixto ‘was very meticulous, very careful, really organised. She didn’t do things any which way. We believe that somehow she was tricked.’
And last night Ms Calixto’s sister-in-law Shirlei Jamberce posted on Facebook: ‘To my friends who knew her.. my sister-in-law Lilian Calixto was a victim of this inhuman person… today fugitive from the police… and my brother and my niece suffering the pain of this great loss.
‘My heart is broken, and filled with hate for the people responsible, this supposed doctor and his two assistants (arrested this morning).
‘This person DR DENIS FURTADO has already blocked all his accounts, because certainly his vanity would be able to cope with one negative comment, as he has more than 670,000 followers. Share… to at least arrive at one more ‘possible patient’, so there isn’t one more victim.’
Rio de Janeiro’s Regional Medical Council (Cremerj) said they had opened an investigation into the incident on Tuesday.
An investigation is also underway by the city’s 16th civil police division.