I am sorry to hear that somebody died 10 days after a tummy tuck/breast augmentation done in Tijuana. The most likely cause of this is a deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolus. That means a blood clot in her legs that ended up in her lungs. The blood clot in her lungs would give her chest pain. In cosmetic surgery this is most commonly associated with tummy tuck's. I am not certain what precautions were utilized for her with surgery done in Tijuana. Physicians members of the American board of plastic surgery must maintain credits including safety credits to keep their board certification. A culture of safety is not an option for us. Prior to abdominoplasty, my patients have sequential compression devices on their calves placed before they go into the operating room. I give them a preoperative blood thinner in a drug known as Lovenox. The compression hose are left on through the entire operative procedure and early postoperatively. We keep our patients warm because cold patients are more coagulable. We keep the knees bent through the procedure which is found to reduce vein tension. Finally I use perioperative long-lasting pain medication in the form of Exparel, which allows patients to get up walking early after their surgery and helps prevent blood clotting later. Obviously this is just a statistical answer, but at her young age is the most likely cause for unfortunate early death.