Just like Lotocki: Pérez Latorre performed operations without being a plastic surgeon

Cristian Pérez Latorre. after being arrested in Los Angeles for illegal practice of medicine and serious harm to a patient

In 2023, Aníbal Lotocki was not far from going to jail. However, the doctor – already sentenced to four years in prison and five years of disqualification from practicing his profession for the serious injuries that caused the death of Silvina Luna after injecting methacrylate into her buttocks and prosecuted for the murder of Rodolfo Zárate, whom he operated on in a clinic in Caballito in 2021 – was a little boastful and said at the time: “My patients know that I am not a plastic surgeon”.

That’s how it was. The missionary doctor operated on and injected his patients, who he is accused of having sent to their graves without having obtained a surgical license.

The same case would be that of Christian Perez Latorrea colleague and bitter enemy of Lotocki, to whom he used to direct barbs in the living rooms of gossip shows. Today, Pérez Latorre, who has been living in the United States for at least four years, He is imprisoned in a cage in Los Angelesafter being arrested last Thursday, accused of practicing medicine without a license in the state of California and causing serious bodily harm to a woman he operated on in July 2021 and whom he continued to treat for complications that arose after the surgery. crimes charged by the LA County District Attorney are at least serious: He is charged with six counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of unlawful physical contact, or battery according to the American penal system. He could be sentenced to ten years in prison.

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In Argentina, Pérez Latorre, now 53, who rubbed shoulders with his famous clients and lived in a luxury apartment in a well-known hotel in Puerto Madero, left behind several lawsuits for damages against him in the civil courts of Buenos Aires, initiated in the last 20 years by patients who spoke of severe pain and exploded prostheses in the buttocks.

A conviction against the doctor in one of these files revealed that, Like Lotocki, Pérez Latorre operated on his patients without being a surgeon.at least until 2003.

Fantasy: Pérez Latorre in an ironic photo shoot that he made for himself

The data comes from a ruling by Chamber F of the Civil CourtThe document, which dates back to 2014, confirmed the previous conviction of Court No. 41, where Pérez Latorre was ordered to pay compensation of 89 thousand pesos of that time -30 thousand dollars at blue rate- a patient who had undergone a dermolipectomy to remove fat from her abdomen. According to the ruling, Pérez Latorre had not warned the woman of the series of scars she would suffer, some with edema.

According to this analysis of the evidence from Court F, Pérez Latorre allegedly lied to the victim:

“It should be added that the patient was also not informed about the doctor’s professional status, who told him he had a medical-surgical specialty that, at the time of the surgery, he did not have”.

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A medical assistant even testified in the lawsuit that Latorre “He posed as a plastic surgeon.” This data It was confirmed by the Forensic Medical Corps.“specifically pointing out that the defendant at the time of his intervention would not have held the specialty title in Plastic Surgery and/or General Surgery,” continued the ruling signed by judges Fernando Posse Saguier, José Luis Galmarini and Eduardo Zannoni. “It should not be overlooked that This omission of information related to the fact that he did not have the specialty in surgical matters, It is not a minor factsince that omission iprevented the patient from having the freedom to choose and, in any case, to perform surgery on someone who did not have the required specialty,” they concluded on this point.

The extract from the ruling of Chamber F that confirmed the sentence against Pérez Latorre

Walter Krieger, The lawyer who participated in the lawsuit said: “We took it together with Dr. Glads López. It took ten years, it was a long file. Pérez Latorre defended himself by saying that he had done everything right. But beyond whether he did things right or not,s, he never explained to the plaintiff the risk of having a scar of the size that she had.”, 27 centimeters long, according to the file. “The ruling says that, in this type of surgery, the surgeon must show photos of the negative results so that the patient understands the risk he is taking. According to the ruling, he had never completed the necessary hours of practice to be a plastic surgeon,” he continued.

Now, Did Pérez Latorre pay the $30,000 compensation?

“After the sentence, Latorre left for the United States. He left the debt, which ended up being paid by the clinic where he had the surgery. He never took responsibility.”says attorney Krieger.

Pérez Latorre’s status as a doctor, at least, was not disputed in this or the other files by demand of the civil court to which it acceded Infobae. If he specialized over time, that’s another story.

He also effectively launched into operations in the United States without revalidating his degree.

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