A man has claimed he ended up in intensive care following a botched butt implant by a top New York plastic surgeon.
Lewis Scott Brogan, 54, has taken out a lawsuit against Douglas Steinbrech who performed the surgery, seeking damages after he was left with “severe depression and financial ruin.”
The Texas entertainment executive claims his pre-procedure lab results showed he was in moderate kidney failure.
But Steinbrech went ahead with the 11-hour procedure anyway at Gotham Plastic Surgery on the Upper East Side in December 2021, while failing to insert a catheter, as stated in Manhattan Supreme Court papers seen by the New York Post.
It says without the catheter, the surgeon couldn’t monitor Brogan’s “fluid intake and output”, which left him with “significant” cardiac and pulmonary problems. He was then rushed to the ICU at Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Brogan is also unhappy with the care he received there and has claimed he was discharged from a seven-day hospital stay at Weill Cornell in “ongoing excruciating pain” from his implant and had a high white blood cell count, which indicated infection - according to the legal filing against Steinbrech, Gotham Plastic Surgery, Weill Cornell and others.
Brogan’s attorney Gerald Grunsfeld said: “There were a few issues we believe that were departures from the standard of care. It’s like one mistake compounding on each other.”
Brogan decided to get surgery after an attack in his own home months earlier which left him “disfigured,” Grunsfeld added.
Following complications, the implant had to be removed. Brogan is seeking unspecified damages.
Gotham declined comment and referred questions to Steinbrech, who did not immediately respond to a message.
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