Reported By: Tim Malloy

New information about an 18 year old West Boca High cheerleader who
died during what we're told was corrective breast surgery.

NewsChannel 5's Tim Malloy joined us from the outpatient center along
Clint Moore Road in Boca Raton where Stephanie Kuleba had her surgery.

The surgery was being performed not in a hospital but in a medical
office as many many surgeries are..

The plastic surgeon was according to our news partners at the Sun
Sentinel id Dr. Steven Howard Schuster.

He is board certified and has been in practice for 24 years and has no
disciplinary action against him..

A touching memorial grows for Stephanie Kuleba..captain of the varsity
cheerleaders..bright and pretty...

Dayna Mercer/Fellow Cheerleader: "She was just the kind of girl
everyone loved, there was nothing bad about her."

Friends say she was undergoing breast augmentation surgery here when
an hour and a half into surgery she had a fatal allergic reaction.

"It was just sad to see her go, she was like a wonderful person,
smart, talented."

"I would like to know my loved one had a board certified anathesiolost
taking care of their case..

Well known West Palm Dermatologist Dr. Kenneth Beer shows us the
quickly accesible kit used to treat patients with allergic reacions..

Beer used to do full sedation in his office..but no more..

"I stopped doing it because I felt it was safer for my patients.."

For two days friends have been gathering holding vigils exchanging
emotional e mails..

How did this happen. How did an athletic kid suddenly go code red and
die 24 hours later at Delray Medical Center..its too big a question in
this time of mourning..

Victoria Briggs: "Her heart was to big for her body her attitude, a
die hard, she was a die hard."

The family which is witholding comment on the tragedy has hired
Roberto Stanziale a personal injury attorney out of Ft Lauderdale...

A funeral mass will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Jude Catholic Church.
21689 Toledo Road, West of Boca Raton.

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