65-year-old woman died – suffered damage to the carotid artery after surgery

65 year old woman died suffered damage to the carotid artery

A 65-year-old woman had suffered from cancer. She therefore had her stomach removed at Karolinska Hospital in Huddinge.

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The woman’s complaints were judged to be less serious

During the operation, the woman also received an expanding network of tubes, a stent, in the new connection from the esophagus.

After the operation, the woman received care at home. She had some problems at the time, but they were judged to be less serious, according to the lex Maria notification which News24 took part in.

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The woman died during surgery

But a month after the operation, the stent had caused a rupture of the carotid artery, which led to the woman’s eventual death.

The woman was sent urgently to Karolinska in Huddinge after, among other things, vomiting blood on the day in question in 2022, but died during surgery, according to the notification to the Inspectorate for Care and Care (Ivo).

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