Joan Rivers' Cause of Death: 'Predictable Complication' From Surgery — mashable.com

NEW YORK — Joan Rivers died from a "predictable complication" during throat surgery that eventually lead to her Sept. 4 death, the New York medical examiner told Mashable on Thursday after completing its investigation. "The cause of Ms. Rivers' death is anoxic encephalopathy [lack of oxygen to the brain] due to hypoxic arrest during laryngoscopy and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with propofol sedation for evaluation of voice changes and gastroesophageal reflux disease," read a statement from Julie Bolcer, PR director at the medical examiner's office. "The manner of death is therapeutic complication. The classification of a death as a therapeutic complication means that the death resulted from a predictable complication of medical therapy."

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