Popular plus-size model Mia Amber Davis passed away yesterday due to complications following knee surgery.
Davis’ husband, comedian Michael Yard, told celebrity gossip site TMZ.com that Davis was going to a Los Angeles hospital to have corrective surgery performed on her knee. Soon afterwards came the shocking phone call informing him that his wife had tragically passed away.
The plus-size model and actress, who scored some of the biggest laughs in the 2000 comedy Road Trip, could very well have suffered a pulmonary embolism—a blood clot that travels to the lungs—after undergoing surgery the day before, Dr. David Baron, former chief of staff at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center & Orthopaedic Hospital, tells E! News.
"It's rare, but it's a known complication of surgery," Baron said. Davis, however, had outpatient surgery—common protocol for arthroscopic knee surgery, he adds. When a patient is sedentary after surgery, clots can develop, Baron says.
Davis was pronounced dead at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center yesterday at 9:39 a.m. after collapsing at home.
"It depends how big the clot is," he says regarding the severity of the condition. "If it is a big one and it gets stuck in one of the major arteries of the lungs, there is a threshold where it is not survivable."
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