A 43-year-old British-Nigerian businessman and social media influencer, Igho “Tiny” Ubiribo, has died following a penis enlargement procedure he underwent during a holiday in Thailand with his wife.
Ubiribo died in March after receiving 40 millilitres of hyaluronic acid and lidocaine at a clinic in Bangkok, an inquest at Inner West London Coroners’ Court heard last month.
According to the Daily Mail, he developed chest pain and twice lost consciousness while having a massage with his wife, Danielle Simba Allen, after the procedure.
He was rushed to Sukhumvit Hospital, where doctors diagnosed a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot blocking a blood vessel in the lungs. He later lost consciousness before a recommended CT scan could be performed.
Doctors tried to revive him for more than 100 minutes, but he died in the early hours of March 6.
A UK postmortem found cellular material in his lungs matched the hyaluronic acid used in the penile filler, supporting the pulmonary embolism diagnosis.
Coroner Jean Harkin ruled that Ubiribo died “as the result of a cosmetic procedure abroad”, with pulmonary embolism caused by the injection recorded as his cause of death.
Ubiribo, who had about 185,000 Instagram followers, was buried in London in May. Davido and other prominent figures attended his funeral.
Medical professionals have previously warned about penile fillers. Professor Vaibhav Modgil, an NHS andrology specialist and consultant urological surgeon, said the procedure could have devastating consequences for patients.
