The lure of fat autografts is at risk

Date: 2016-07-25 source: China journal of traditional Chinese medicine author: lu feng

In the public mind, fat seems to be a disgusting thing, especially want to lose weight of the United States eyebrow, a mention of fat to be eager to move it to the chest immediately, can thin body and breast enhancement, beautiful good idea! With the development of plastic surgery and cosmetic techniques, this idea is no longer a dream, and autofat transplantation can be done, but how much do you know about the truth about autofat transplantation? Is autologous fat transplantation safe?

A serious complication of autogenous fat transplantation is arterial embolization. As the word indicates, autogenous fat transplantation is to "move" the fat that you do not want to move to the place that you want to fill. Generally speaking, it is divided into four steps: acquiring -- collecting -- transplanting -- fixation. Compared with artificial material 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 secrete a lot of these cytokines 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 the internal carotid artery is blocked, it can lead to death. So don't think of auto-fat transplantation as a simplistic problem, which involves simply injecting fat into the body, with lots 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 entirely? There are definitely risks involved in any surgery, so we can't completely reject fat autografts just because of the risks. There is no problem with autoadipose transplantation itself, and the physician's technique is a key factor in the success of autoadipose transplantation.

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