SAO PAULO (AP) -- A Brazilian doctor says Usher's wife was hospitalized last week in Sao Paulo after suffering a cardiac arrest shortly before undergoing plastic surgery.
Ellen Dastry, spokeswoman for plastic surgeon Silvio Sterman, says Tameka Raymond checked into the Sao Rafael Hospital last Friday for a "simple liposuction." Raymond suffered a cardiac arrest while being anesthetized for the procedure "but was revived in less than a minute by heart massage," Dastry said Thursday.
Raymond was then placed in an induced coma before being taken to the intensive care unit, a procedure Dastry said was done "in order to avoid unnecessary complications."
Raymond is currently recovering in Sao Paulo's better-equipped Sirio-Libanes Hospital, Dastry said without providing further details.
R&B star Usher was supposed perform at music mogul Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party last Saturday, but he backed out for what Davis called a serious family illness.
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Tameka Foster, the wife of R&B singer Usher, suffered a heart attack after going under anesthetic to have liposuction in Brazil.
Usher cancelled his appearance at last weeks Grammys and rushed to be with his wife who had checked into the Sao Rafael Hospital for the procedure.
Foster, 37, went into cardiac arrest but was revived by heart massage less than a minute after suffering the attack.
She was placed into an induced coma and moved to intensive care. She was then transferred to Sirio-Libanes Hospital in Sao Paolo for recovery, reports the Associated Press.
Foster, a stylist, married Usher in 2007. The pair have two children- two-month-old Naveid Ely Raymond and Usher Raymond V, 15 months