Former Dr. Jan Adams, the surgeon best known for operating on Donda West, Kanye West’s mother, was sentenced today to a year in jail for his third DUI arrest back in June.

Former Dr. Jan Adams, the doc who operated on Kanye West’s mom, Donda West, just before she died, was arrested for his third DUI at about 2:45 am. A police report said:

California Highway Patrol officers saw Adams’ 2004 gray Jag XJ8 driving the wrong way up an off ramp on the 605 freeway just outside Benicia, California. After failing a field sobriety test, he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, driving the wrong way and driving on a suspended license.

This is Adams’ third DUI arrest since 2003. He’s currently in the Solano County Jail awaiting bail.

More bad news for Adams. A spokesperson for the California Medical Board said, “As of midnight last night, he is not allowed to practice medicine in California.” The former doc’s medical license expired, and so has his 15 minutes.

Kanye West, who is up for eight nominations, including album of the year and rap album of the year for Graduation, is expected to perform Stronger and Hey Mama at the February 10 Grammy Awards in honor of his mother Donda West who passed away on November 10, 2007 one day after undergoing plastic surgery.

The autopsy report on Donda West was released today, but it shows no conclusive evidence as to the cause of her death. There are several factors that make sense however. The report indicates Donda had coronary artery disease with narrowing of her heart arteries. If she had a heart attack caused by a clot, the clot would liquify after her death so an autopsy would not find a clot as evidence. If Donda died soon after the onset of a heart attack, the clot would liquify, and the heart muscle may show no more damage then appears after muscle tissue already shows when it breaks down after the onset of death. Another factor could have been the odd sickle cell like behavior of her erythrocytes, which themselves could have caused problems. Generally after a long difficult surgery, a patient can experience microscopic bleeding, and leaking. The bleeding becomes worse after platelets are exhausted so the person’s blood can no longer clot to stop the microscopic bleeds from the surgical trauma. When a person microscopically bleeds to death in cases where their body has experienced trauma too great for survival, the process is called disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Next the catecholamines become exhausted causing the blood pressure to drop, and eventually leading to death.

Although the autopsy findings did not make a definitive conclusion as to the cause of death, it can be reasonably speculated the cause of death after a complicated and prolonged surgical trauma, was from the a combination of disseminated intravascular coagulation and catecholamine exhaustion. Had Donda been admitted to a hospital after the procedure, the blood work, and other assessments of Donda would have revealed her complications and she might still be alive today.

To read the whole autopsy report click here.

The day that Donda West died after complications from cosmetic surgery, her friends and family made frantic calls to 911. In one part of the second tape the woman on the phone starts to hyperventilate as the 911 operator attempts to instruct her on how to perform CPR. Click the link below to listen to the tapes, but be forewarned, the tapes are very graphic, disturbing, and sad.

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