Medical Examiner concludes the 'Fashion Police' star died from 'a predictable complication' during a minor throat procedure.
- Oct 17, 2014
AceShowbiz - Joan Rivers autopsy results have just been released. According to New York City Medical Examiner's Office, the comedienne died from low blood oxygen to the brain during a surgery that led to brain damage.
"OCME [Office of the Chief Medical Examiner] has completed its investigation," it's announced. "The cause of Ms. Rivers' death is anoxic encephalopathy due to hypoxic arrest during laryngoscopy and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with propofol sedation for evaluation of voice changes and gastroesophageal reflux disease."
"The manner of death is therapeutic complication. The classification of a death as a therapeutic complication means that the death resulted from a predictable complication of medical therapy."
Rivers, 81, passed away on September 4 after a week of hospitalization. She was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital after a throat procedure went awry at Yorkville Endoscopy in NYC. She only agreed to endoscopy, not an unplanned throat biopsy during which she stopped breathing. She was put into a medically-induced coma after the botched procedure.
