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Friday, October 17, 2014

Joan Rivers’ cause of death confirmed

Joan Rivers’ cause of death confirmed

Joan Rivers' cause of death confirmed
The 81-year-old Fashion Police presenter died as a result of complication during surgery that caused her brain to be starved of oxygen.
In an official statement, Julie Bolcer of the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office said: ‘OCME [Office of Chief Medical Examiner] has completed its investigation. The cause of Ms Rivers’ death is anoxic encephalopathy [brain damage due to lack of oxygen] due to hypoxic arrest during laryngoscopy and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with Propofol sedation for evaluation of voice changes and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Adding: ‘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.’
FILE - In this April 22, 2013 file photo, Television personalities Joan Rivers, left, and daughter Melissa Rivers attend the 2013 Matrix New York. Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. Rivers was hospitalized Aug. 28, after going into cardiac arrest at a doctor's office. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file) Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file
Joan & daughter Melissa
Rivers is also survived by a grandson, Edgar Cooper Endicott – known by his middle name.

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