Lisa Marie Presley died from scar tissue from weight loss surgery. She died on January 12, 2023 at the very young age of 54, from intestinal obstruction caused by previous scar tissue from her gastric-bypass weight loss surgery that was supposed to prevent food from passing through her stomach. The original reports of her death listed the cause as cardiac arrest, and these autopsy findings have just recently been released.<\/p>\n
Lisa Marie had plenty of warning that she was in trouble. Her belly was visibly swollen after the weight-loss surgery and she developed belly pain for several months before her death. She had further cosmetic surgery and received pain medicine that almost always slows intestinal movement and causes constipation. She was hospitalized for a serious infection. She complained of fever, nausea, and vomiting for months before she died.<\/p>\n
She also might have had out-of-control diabetes because she had:
\n\u2022 high blood sugar
\n\u2022 high blood pressure
\n\u2022 depression
\n\u2022 a previous stroke
\n\u2022 obesity
\n\u2022 yoyo weight changes
\n\u2022 damaged kidneys that caused her blood to become acidic<\/p>\n
On the morning of her death, she complained of belly pain when her ex-husband, Danny Keough, took her children to school. He returned to find her unconscious. She was immediately taken to the local hospital\u2019s emergency room where she developed serious irregular heartbeats and she was given a pacemaker to make her heart beat more regularly. She was admitted to intensive care unit, but a brain scan showed that her brain was already dead from lack of oxygen.<\/p>\n
The death rate from gastric bypass is very low. The 10-year mortality rate after gastric bypass surgery is three percent and most of those deaths occur within the first 30 days after surgery.<\/p>\n
The Autopsy<\/strong> Pain drugs can cause intestinal paralysis, and the majority of drug addicts suffer from constipation. When the intestine muscles stop contracting, food stays in the intestines where fluid is continuously absorbed. The intestinal contents get so dry and hard that they can block the intestines. Then the intestines fill up with more food until they can burst. The human colon rarely contains more than one pound of stool, but her father, Elvis, had more than 30 pounds of stool in his intestines at the time of his autopsy.<\/p>\n This was my original report on Lisa Marie Presley’s death, from January 16, 2023:<\/p>\n Lisa Marie Presley was the only child of Elvis Presley, the most dominant singer of all time, and actress Priscilla Presley. Lisa Marie wrote and recorded three albums, including a gold certified album in 2003, and was eventually the sole heir of Elvis\u2019s fabulous wealth and Graceland estate. However, her hard life, early sexual abuse, drug use, yoyo dieting and four marriages took their toll on her health and she died when her heart stopped beating at age 54.<\/p>\n Her Hard Life<\/strong> In 2001, when she was 26, she helped to set up The Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation (EPCF) that provided homeless families with rent-free housing, child day care, career and financial counseling and family management guidance to help them attain financial independence. The EPCF also provided college scholarships.<\/p>\n Her first album was released when she was 35, and it became a gold best seller. Her second and third albums, released at ages 38 and 44, also sold well. In 1997, for the 20th anniversary of her father’s death, she released “Don’t Cry Daddy,” sung as a duet with Elvis using a track that he had recorded before his death.
\nAn autopsy found significant oxycodone in her bloodstream. Oxycodone and similar drugs slow down the intestines to make most people severely constipated and can eventually paralyze the intestines. The autopsy also found quetiapine, norbuprenorphine and buprenorphine, all of which can paralyze the intestines to cause constipation and obstruction. She had also suffered from alcohol and illicit drug abuse, and smoked a pack of cigarettes a day.<\/p>\n
\nLisa Marie was born in 1968 to Elvis and Priscilla Presley in Memphis, Tennessee, nine months after her parents’ wedding. When she was four years old, her parents divorced, so she spent most of her childhood bouncing between her mother in Los Angeles and her father at Graceland in Memphis. When she was nine, her father died and she inherited part of his enormous estate. Her mother started dating actor Michael Edwards, and Lisa Marie later said that he sexually abused her. She was difficult to control and started using drugs, so her mother sent her to a series of private schools. Lisa Marie described herself as \u201ckind of a loner, a melancholy and strange child. I had a real self-destructive mode for a while, I never really fit into school. I didn\u2019t really have any direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
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