Overview

• Silvina Luna died on August 31, 2023 at the Hospital Italiano after more than two months in intensive care while awaiting a kidney transplant.
• Coverage recounts that biopolymers/metacrylate injected by surgeon Aníbal Lotocki were linked to hypercalcemia and progressive renal failure.
• She underwent dialysis three times a week for four hours and was on the INCUCAI waiting list, as her brother Ezequiel offered to donate a kidney.
• On the second anniversary, friends and colleagues shared tributes and memories of her positivity and spirituality, with accounts describing her final moments as peaceful and surrounded by loved ones.
• Lotocki has an eight-year prison sentence and a 10-year medical ban for serious injuries, faces a separate homicide case awaiting oral trial, and is the subject of a homicide complaint filed after Luna’s death that remains under investigation.