Stoja and her liposuction: what she said about the complications

I spent nine and a half hours in a medically induced coma.”) Nova.rs carried the same account along with her estimate of what she has spent on cosmetic procedures over the years: “Ne bih o cifri, ali tu je negde oko 100.000 evra kad se sve spoji koliko sam na operacije potrošila. Kad kažeš Turska, svi znaju da nije baš jeftino i jednostavno, ali ja sam prezadovoljna time kako je sve ipak ispalo na kraju.” (“I won't give an exact figure, but it's around 100,000 euros total when you add up everything I've spent on procedures. When you say Turkey, everyone knows it's not exactly cheap or simple, but I'm very pleased with how it all turned out in the end.”)

That is all this article relies on. Stoja named the country, Turkey, but did not name a clinic, a surgeon or the year of the procedure, so this article does not name or guess at any of those details, and the operation itself was not performed at City Medical Centre. Where the text below explains how liposuction works and what proper recovery involves, it describes the procedure in general, not her treatment.

She did not go into the exact medical cause, and this article does not speculate about it. What her account does highlight is the importance of having surgery in a setting with full anaesthesia monitoring, an intensive-care unit available if something goes wrong, and a surgical team equipped to manage complications quickly rather than send a patient home the same day regardless of how the procedure went.

• VASER (ultrasound-assisted) liposuction — fat cells are broken down by ultrasound before removal, which suits fine contouring and more delicate areas.

How many areas are treated in one session, and under what kind of anaesthesia, is decided by the surgeon after an examination and a review of the patient's health — a decision that should always weigh the extent of the procedure against what the facility can safely monitor, not be driven by cost alone.

• Blood tests, an ECG and other screening are required before any decision on how much can safely be done in one session.
• Combining several large areas in a single long procedure raises the risks and the anaesthesia time, which is why an experienced surgical and anaesthesia team will sometimes recommend splitting the work into more than one session.
• A facility with continuous monitoring during and after anaesthesia, and access to intensive care if needed, matters as much as the surgeon's technique.

Compression garments are worn for 30–45 days, most patients return to work within 7–10 days, and the final result is judged at three to six months once the tissue has settled. A coma or days of immobility, as Stoja described, is not a normal part of liposuction recovery and points to a serious complication rather than the expected course.

To be clear: City Medical Centre has no connection with Stoja or her treatment, which she said took place in Turkey. Her story is simply a well-known example of a singer who spoke openly about a serious complication.