Every fifth threatening complications after abdominoplasty

Plastic surgery, causing changes in the contours of the body, can lead to desirable outcomes for patients, but they can also cause dangerous consequences. For example, every fifth postoperative abdominoplasty ends complications as found by researchers from the University of Texas.

Abdominoplasty

Operations to change the contours of the body most often held after patients get rid of large amounts of excess weight. In such cases on the body are the folds of skin that must be removed. However, although the Abdominoplasty   and gives the patient the body of his dreams, it can cause serious postoperative complications Have been wound on the body after such surgery to heal very long, which leads to the penetration of body infections.

And the largest patient was initially, the worse it can be the consequences of such complications as established American researchers. They carefully observed the health of patients who passed through abdominoplasty   and "total body lift" - they lost tens of kilograms overweight and faced with the problem of excess skin.

Coefficient postoperative complications   from 450 patients become participants in the study amounted to as much as 20%, that is actually a such complications faced by one in five. Twice danger grew in those who lost weight by 25 kg or more, well, getting rid of excess weight amounting to more than 45 kg increased the risk of postoperative complications abdominoplasty several times. These same patients often observed postoperative wound dehiscence, in which burst imposed during Operation seams.

As authors of the study, such a high percentage complications associated with a sharp change of power in such patients, as well as changes in their skin. (READ MORE)

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