The lure of autologous fat transplantation is associated with risk

Chinese journal of traditional Chinese medicine

In the public mind, adipose it seems that the thing that makes a person hate, want to reduce weight especially beautiful eyebrow, mention adipose very much to want to move it to bosom immediately, can thin body can breast enhancement again, how beautiful idea! With the development of plastic surgery and cosmetic technology, this idea is no longer a dream, autologous fat transplantation can be done, but how much do you know about the truth of autologous fat transplantation? Is autologous fat transplantation safe?

Arterial embolism is a serious complication of autologous fat transplantation. As the word indicates, autologous fat transplantation is to "move" the fat, move the unwanted fat to the place where you want to fill. Generally speaking, it is divided into four steps: acquisition -- collection -- transplantation -- fixation. Compared with artificial fillers such as hyaluronic acid, autologous fat has the advantage of improving skin quality, because fat contains many cytokines that can promote skin adhesion and fibrosis, and these cytokines are secreted in large quantities after transplantation, thus improving the skin quality of the transplanted area.

But although a lot of good autologous fat transplantation, but is not suitable for everyone, and also makes some people question the safety of autologous fat transplantation, some experts pointed out that "as a whole, a risk, autologous fat transplantation is the most serious is all injections of beauty, the risk of the blood vessels within the artery injection caused vascular embolization, vascular embolization if blocked the central retinal artery, ophthalmic artery can lead to blindness; If you block the internal carotid artery, it can lead to death. So don't think of autologous fat transplantation as a simple matter of injecting fat, which involves a lot of anatomical requirements. However, pulmonary embolism is very rare, with 7 cases reported in the literature of ocular artery embolization alone.

If an operation is risky, do you reject it completely? There are certain risks associated with any operation, so we should not reject autologous fat transplantation completely because there are risks. These risks are small probability events after all. Autologous fat transplantation is not a problem in itself, and the doctor's technique is the key factor for the success of autologous fat transplantation.

Fat transplantation is a very popular surgery, but it is not as simple as you think, you have to be in awe of fat transplantation, especially plastic surgeons.