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A woman who underwent botched breast surgery was left so badly injured that she had no nipples after her breasts developed necrotic tissue and began to rot.

Restaurant manager, Laura Damiani, 31, developed necrotic tissue 14 days after her breast surgery. Necrosis is a type of gangrene – when necrosis sets in, skin tissues turn black but it is a benign not a cancerous condition.

Trauma or surgery can cause necrosis in breast tissue to set in – also called breast fat necrosis; and it may occur if breasts sustain an impact injury, as in a head-on car accident.

Often further treatment for breast fat necrosis is not needed and it heals by itself with the help of painkillers.

However, in an attempt to repair the damage, the cosmetic surgeon who had carried out the breast operation removed Ms Damiani’s nipples completely, fearing that they were rotting.

The second operation left Ms Damiani in terrible pain – and pushed her relationship with her boyfriend to “breaking point”, the Daily Mail reports.

Ms Damiani said, however, that when she first underwent the knife to have corrective surgery to her unevenly-sized breasts, she had confidence in her surgeon.

“The surgeon made me feel very comfortable,” said Ms Damiani. “He said the outcome was going to be fantastic and I had no reason to think otherwise –
you go into it a bit blind.

“You have this sort of rosy outlook that everything is going to be fine. You hear things occasionally but you never think it's going to be you or your family and friends. That's just the risk you take.”

At first, the surgery appeared to have been a success, said Ms Damiani – who was told that her breasts were healing “normally”. However, after she developed pain, she sought a second opinion.

“I saw a second nurse and that's the first time I was advised that something was seriously wrong,” she said.

“Basically, what he did was remove the whole areola and nipple so I was left with just raw skin on my left breast,” she said.

“I realised that my breasts would never be the same again and I wasn't going to have the outcome I had hoped for.”

Ms Damiani became depressed and is still being treated with antidepressants. She and her boyfriend nearly split up as a result of the stress – but she went to cosmetic surgeon Paul Harris and after three breast operations, Mr Harris managed to repair the botched breast surgery she underwent, including reconstructing her nipples.

“When I look in the mirror now, I see a completely different person,” said Ms Damiani.

“I see someone who's happy, who's confident in their skin and I'm not afraid to show myself anymore.“

Ms Damiani’s story was covered by the Channel 5 series Botched Up Bodies.

Duncan Lewis Clinical Negligence Solicitors – Cosmetic Surgery Claims

Duncan Lewis clinical negligence solicitors can advise cosmetic surgery patients who have suffered injury as a result of negligent cosmetic surgery or plastic surgery on how to make no win no fee claims for compensation.

Cosmetic surgery patients have three years from the date of injury or diagnosis of injury in which to make Cosmetic Surgery Claims – including claims relating to negligent breast surgery, facelifts, liposuction, non-invasive cosmetic treatments and nose and eye surgery.

For expert legal advice on making no win no fee Cosmetic Surgery Claims, call Duncan Lewis clinical negligence solicitors on 020 7923 4020.