Alison Ergun, a client service officer for Regenesis, said she was called on the day of the surgery.
“There was a complication and she had stopped breathing in the first few minutes of surgery,” she said in a statement.
The senior coroner for North West Wales, Kate Robertson, said translated notes from the surgeon, Dr Ramazan Azar, described how there had been a 3-4mm “defect” in the aorta artery when the operation began, leading to bleeding.
He said that the aorta was repaired by the surgical team, and the gastric sleeve procedure cancelled due to the complications.
However, medics in the intensive care unit were then unable to find a pulse, and Mrs Savage was pronounced dead in the early hours of the morning.
