Safety Concerns About Large Volume Liposuction
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Safety of Large Volume Liposuction The most commonly performed plastic surgical operation in the United
States is liposuction. In the last decade the number of patients undergoing
the procedure has increased from 47,212 to 195,135 annually. A number
of studies have recently been undertaken in order to examine the safety
of liposuction because of highly publicized morbidity and mortality statistics
and high profile case reports of deaths due to liposuction. Little is
known about the physiology of large volume liposuction. Patients are exposed
to prolonged procedures, general anesthesia, fluid shifts and infusion
of high doses of epinephrine and lidocaine. At the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center, in the porcine model for large volume liposuction
no cardiovascular changes were observed in 9 animals; however, subclinical
fat embolism to the lungs was demonstrated. Authors: Jeffrey M. Kenkel, MD, Spencer A. Brown PhD, Avron H. Lipschitz, MD, Evan Sorokin, MD, Rod J. Rohrich, MD, Greene Shepherd, Phar MD, Stefan Grebe, MD, PhD, Lawrence K. Oliver, PhD, Maureen Luby, MD. Sources: Stomach Bypass Surgery Information |