Lena Zavaroni, the child singing star once billed as the next Barbra Streisand, has died at the University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff, it was announced yesterday. Her family broke the news with little explanation. Her father was too distressed to speak, although hospital staff made it clear that the year-old singer had been recovering from an operation after being hospitalised several weeks ago.
Friends revealed that Zavaroni had been undergoing pioneering surgery which she hoped would finally cure her anorexia. The singer had suffered from a serious eating disorder since the age of She was very warm, caring and in desperate need of getting better. She was hopeful she would be okay after the operation and she was strong and positive about it. Zavaroni's friends from the world of showbusiness spoke of their sense of shock that a life which started so brightly ended in such tragedy.
Fellow child star Bonnie Langford, who was at stage school with Zavaroni in the Seventies, said she was deeply saddened. Brian Simpson, the consultant neurosurgeon who carried out the operation at the University Hospital of Wales said: "She was brighter and making eye contact with people, which she had not been doing before.
The nurses said she was asking about their families. The singer was so severely malnourished that she would have struggled to fight any infection, he said.
Her father, Victor, and sister, Carla asked Mr Simpson at the inquest why he had agreed to perform the surgery when Ms Zavaroni was so frail. Putting on a bit of weight would not have reversed the long-term problem," Mr Simpson said. She was born in in Rothsay on the Isle of Bute,where her family ran a chain of fish and chip shops. But the girl who sang with Frank Sinatra and Liza Minnelliat a Royal Variety performance was unable to cope with her sudden fame.
She began her first crash diet at the age of Her condition worsened at 17 when her mother, Hilda, committed suicide. By 20 she had almost retired from the stage. Coronavirus Explore our guides to help you through the pandemic. Latest News. Hamilton keeps title hopes alive with mesmerising effort in Brazil How recreational drug use contributes to environmental damage Austria imposes lockdown for two million unvaccinated Sign In.
Don't have an account? Forgot Password? It was there that the former child singing star Lena Zavaroni, who suffered from anorexia, underwent such surgery in for severe depression.
Though the operation seemed to have been a success, she died of Pneumonia less than a month later. According to Brian Simpson, consultant neurosurgeon at Cardiff, the operations his team have conducted have led to a "marked improvement" in roughly half of those being treated for severe depression and OCD.
Neurosurgery for Mental Disorder is covered by section 57 of the Mental Health Act , which covers all patients, whether voluntary or detained under another section of the Act sectioned. Under section 57, neurosurgery can be given only if all three of the following requirements are met:. Your consent must be given free from undue pressure and with sufficient knowledge of the purpose, likelihood of success, risks and alternatives of the treatment.
This section of the Mental Health Act seems flawed How can an individual with severe mental heath problems make an informed chose if they are capable of making such a chose then I would argue that they don't need the surgical procedure. Lena informing those treating her that she would kill herself if she does not get the NMD is not consect but is as they believed her threat grounds for Lena being Sectioned.
Pneumonia can lead to complications, some of which can be fatal, depending on the health and age of the patient. These include:. Sadly we know her lifestyle was less then healthy and people with anorexia nervosa are more likely to get Pneumonia , but Lena Zavaroni was in a hospital that should have had very good hygiene.
It is stated by the media that Lena die of Pneumonia, but not how the hospital was treating the Pneumonia and how when Lena was in hospital she came to get Pneumonia in the first place. The death of Lena Zavaroni shows that the Neurosurgery for Mental Disorder she underwent should not have been preformed as she was not of significant weight or health for her body's immune response to cope with any possible postoperative complications.
Prior to her death Lena was admitted to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff for a psychosurgical operation that was described as "pioneering" and "keyhole surgery to partially interrupt the nerve pathways that control emotions".
The operation took place on 7 September After the operation she contracted Pneumonia and her weight drop to less than five stone 70 lb, 32 kg , just three weeks later she was dead.
On Lena's death certificate it states she died from Bronchopneumonia on 1 October But the reality of her death is not as straightforward as her death certificate implies. The description of her death as one of natural causes is as far from reality as you could get. The hospital where tragic former childhood star Lena Zavaroni died following brain surgery has rejected claims she had undergone pioneering treatment.
Miss Zavaroni, 35, died on Friday from an infection after experts at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff carried out delicate neurosurgery to try to cure her mental illness. An inquest into the death of former child sensation Lena Zavaroni was told about the final weeks of her life today.
A surgeon who treated her told how she was planning a return to the stage after an operation to help her combat depression but she weighed only three and a half stone and succumbed to a chest infection soon afterwards.
If as her doctor claimed she had made it clear that she would again try to take her life and he believed she would. Rothesay Pier Her parents owned a fish and chip shop called Zavaroni's. Tommy Scott It was during the summer of that the Lena Zavaroni success story really began.
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