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Lisa Marie Presley's Cause of Death Revealed
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner said Thursday Presley died from a small bowel obstruction, according to an autopsy report. The report says that Presley was "complaining of abdominal pain on the morning of 1/12/2023" and was later "found unresponsive at home and 9-1-1 was called."
The obstruction was a result of adhesions caused by weight-loss surgery she underwent several years ago.
Presley, also a singer, died after being rushed to a California hospital on 12 January. She was 54. Her last public appearance was two days before her death, at the Golden Globes.
At the time of Presley's death, local officials said first responders had been dispatched to her home in Calabasas, where they found her in cardiac arrest.
On Thursday, the medical examiner's office ruled that she died of natural causes and said that the cardiac arrest was caused by a "small bowel obstruction". This occurs when the small intestine is blocked, sometimes as a result of colon cancer, medication or adhesions (scar tissue) that form after surgeries. Some conditions that inflame intestines can also lead to small bowel obstructions.
The news comes exactly six months (plus a day) after Lisa Marie's shocking death on January 12, 2023.
In Presley's case, the report found that the adhesions were caused by weight-loss surgery, known as bariatric surgery, that she underwent several years ago. "This is a known long-term complication of this type of surgery," the medical examiner's report noted.
The late singer also had “therapeutic” levels of oxycodone in her system at the time of her death, as well as the opioid Buprenorphine - used to treat addiction - and the antipsychotic drug Quetiapine, according to the autopsy report obtained by The Post on Thursday. The autopsy noted that the drugs did not contribute to her death and there was “no evidence of injury or foul play,” adding that the “manner of death is deemed natural.”
While her cause of death has been revealed, the coroner has not yet released the full toxicology report, so there's potentially more information on the horizon about what else may have led to her untimely death.