Aesthetic plastic surgery
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Aesthetic plastic surgery · Nov 2003
ReviewExperience with more than 5,000 cases in which monitored anesthesia care was used for liposuction surgery.
Conscious sedation using monitored anesthesia care can provide a clinical spectrum from relaxation to moderate anesthesia. This middle ground between general anesthesia and "pure" tumescent liposuction can help facilitate patient comfort and surgical proficiency during the procedure. ⋯ Tumescent liposuction surgery with monitored anesthesia care provides a middle ground between general anesthesia and purely tumescent liposuction.
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Aesthetic plastic surgery · Sep 2003
Clinical TrialImproved scar quality following primary and secondary healing of cutaneous wounds.
Poor wound healing remains a critical problem in our daily practice of surgery, exerting a heavy toll on our patients as well as on the health care system. In susceptible individuals, scars can become raised, reddish, and rigid, may cause itching and pain, and might even lead to serious cosmetic and functional problems. Hypertrophic scars do not occur spontaneously in animals, which explains the lack of experimental models for the study of pathologic scar modulation. ⋯ In the second study, secondary healing of partial thickness skin graft donor sites was evaluated following treatment with Tegaderm or MEBO, two different types of moisture-retentive dressings. In the second and third studies, healed wounds were evaluated with the quantitative scale for scar assessment described by Beausang et al. Statistical analysis revealed that for both types of wound healing, scar quality was significantly superior in those wounds treated with MEBO.
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Aesthetic plastic surgery · Jul 2003
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyComparison of the incidence and predicted risk of early surgical site infections after breast reduction.
In plastic surgery, clean, elective operations such as breast reductions are anticipated to have low risk factors for infections (1.1-2.1%). To further lower or prevent surgical site infections (SSI), the efficacy of a prophylactic administration of anti-microbacterials remains a current controversial issue in plastic surgery. We report here the findings of a retrospective study in which we examined two groups of patients with breast reductions, one of which received a single-shot antimicrobacterial prophylaxis with cefuroxime preoperatively and the other who were given no anti-microbacterials. ⋯ According to the SENIC score, breast reductions can be classified also as medium risk of SSI with a predicted risk of 3.9%, which showed a nearly perfect correspondence with the actual SSI incidence in both study groups. The reason for this increased, medium risk is the factor "operation time > 2 h," which is obviously an inherent risk factor in breast reductions. Among the multitude of patient and nonpatient SSI risk factors, in healthy women operation time was the only factor which could be clearly identified.
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Aesthetic plastic surgery · Jul 2003
Comparative Study Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical TrialIce application to minimize pain in the split-thickness skin graft donor site.
Reconstruction of tissue defects with skin grafts is one of the most used processes in soft tissue defects. While any part of the body can be used as a donor site of split-thickness skin grafts, the posterolateral thigh is the most used one. Pain in the graft donor site may be the primary concern of patients in the postoperative period. ⋯ The mean pain scores in the graft donor site were found to be quite low in patients in the group with ice application (p < 0.05). No significant difference was determined between the two groups when their pain scales were compared on the fourth and the fifth days (p > 0.05). Ice can be safely used in patients for whom donor site pain is the primary concern, with advantages such as ease of application, low cost (almost free), and a significant decrease in pain in the donor site.
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Aesthetic plastic surgery · Jul 2003
Case ReportsAugmentation mammaplasty for mammarial hypotrophy and ptosis in a patient with ichthyosis.
A 30-year-old female with mammarial hypotrophy was diagnosed with non-bullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma (NBCIE) with dermatologic evaluation. Her mammarial hypotrophy and ptosis was corrected with a breast implant. Although there is a tendency to skin infections and increased skin fragility in the ichthyotic patients, breast augmentation with silicone prosthesis is well-tolerated by the patient.