Obesity And Complications In Breast Reduction Surgery: Are Restrictions Justified?

The surgery of breast surgery has provided long term relief for most of patients with high satisfaction and due to its ability and capability to reduce the excessive fat from the breast; it has the demand in plastic surgery where often exceeding the volume provided through public health care service. However, the access to the reduction in mammoplasty has been limited by various measures as it restricts the procedure to the woman with normal body weight or ideal body weight where many surgeons finds obesity a contraindication for breast reduction, as the relationship between body weight and local complications has been observed in many cases. The complications faced by the obese women are minor, such as superficial or partial wound dehiscence and consequent scarring and infection.

Operative Technique

Inferior to pedicle technique or even at times superior to pedicle technique, the breast reduction surgery is one of the most potential procedure where it selected pre-operatively the size of breast and the distance between nipple and clavicle which allows the surgeon’s preference of technique and patients preference of the location of scars.

The whole operation is performed under general or local anesthesia, where the solution is of licodine and epinephrine, and the solution is administered to the skin resection lines and breast tissue. After the resection, the breast tissue is weighed immediately and the suction pipes are placed in both the breasts and removed either on the 1st and 2nd day of post-operation before discharging the patient from the hospital. If there are any complications, the patients should immediately visit the clinic of the hospital. There should be follow up visit with the surgeon for every 6 months after the procedure, where in such visits the post operative functional and aesthetic results are evaluated, and if necessary, a corrective procedure is also planned.

Complications

The main aim of breast reduction is the end appearance after undergoing the surgery and patients with symptomatic macromastia, physical discomfort and decrease in pain is the main goal of the operation. The few local complication such as frequent bleeding causes distress for the patients which needs extra need for healthcare services during the convalescence period. There can be permanent scarring or asymmetry after the surgery, if the surgeon did not evaluated the plan accordingly. One of the most important risk factors remains the amount of resection which may cause health problem.

One of the recognized health risk and increasing problem among the nation is Obesity where about 50% of the women are over-weight or obese and sometimes by weight loss and exercise are the important factors in controlling the risk of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, but they can be at times difficulty to execute if the quality of life is being decreased by inability to move freely and by chronic pain. Reduction mammoplasty helps the patients to free pain which helps them to participate in sports and day to day life activities more actively.

In treating of symptomatic macromastia, a syndrome of persistent neck and shoulder pain, frequent episodes of headache, painful shoulder grooving from brassiere straps, backache and hand neuropathies caused by heavy breasts, Breast Reduction is most effective since it access to surgery sometimes is limited for obese women and overweight for fear of complications. For more details please visit at https://www.harleybodyclinic.co.uk

Harley Body Clinic
10 Harley Street
London W1G 9PF

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