At least how many people have died after liposuction?

Researchers say at least four patients have died after liposuction in New York and one in another U.S. city, raising questions about the safety of the nation’s most popular type of cosmetic surgery. Until now, there have been occasional news stories of patients dying after liposuction, in which unwanted body fat is vacuumed out. But a report in yesterday’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine is the first detailed account in a medical journal. Doctors reviewing six years of autopsy records in New York City found four patients who had died after liposuction.