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My Artery Ruptured After Breast Aug. & Lift, Why Would this Happen?
I had a breast aug & lift 13 days ago, everything seemed fine. I was going in for my post op appt on the 10th day and the night before we were out eating and I had a cough from the chips when 5 mins later I started feeling this sharp pain in my breast, it was persistent so I went to the bathroom & looked under my shirt & saw that my breast had swollen the size of a football, soon after it was hard to breath,dizzy,& I felt like breast was going to explode literally!At ER artery had ruptured, why?
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Margarita6209
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Cauterized artery became unplugged
Hello,
Sorry to hear about your experience. It is likely that an artery that was cauterized to make room for your breast implant pushed out the cauterized blood clot that was keeping it closed. Another option, but less likely, is that a very tightly stretched artery was stretched tighter by the coughing and ripped. These things are possible and there is no way to control them from occuring after the surgery is finished. It is partly the reason why plastic surgeons...
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Bleeding 13 days after BA
Bleeding after surgery is a very small risk and bleeding 13 days after surgery is even more uncommon. In twenty years of practice I have had one patient just like you. For whatever reason the blood vessels stay cauterized and then started bleeding after the body's natural healing mechanisms kick in. It might also have happened if the natural stretching that occurs disrupted a blood vessel at the edge of the strecthing. I'm sure it was quite frightening for and I trust that your...
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Bleeding is a risk with all surgery.
This would have been a frightening experience for any patient to experience but is fortunately a rare event with breast augmentation surgery. You developed a hematoma (collection of blood) around your breast implant nearly two weeks after surgery. Just when you thought you were almost healed you had this setback. Each surgeon will have their own experience but in my practice there is a less than 1% risk of this occurring and requiring urgent additional surgery. Although a hematoma after...
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Unfortunate bleeding.
I am very sorry for your unfortunate complication. Bleeding can occur with any surgery, but luckily it is uncommon. First, you did nothing wrong and sometimes a bleeding event like yours represents some bad luck. At the time of surgery, your tissues were dissected and vessels were cauterized. I believe your cough led to a clot to pop off a vessel or you might of torn a vessel. I am hoping you have already seen your plastic surgeon and he/she has dealt...
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Bleeding after surgery
During surgery incisions are made and so obviously blood vessels are cut. These open vessels are cauterized at surgery and/or form clots within them so that they do not continue to bleed without end. In the first week or 2 after surgery these clots can become dislodged in which case the blood vessel will start to bleed again. This bleeding can be significant requiring additional surgery to stop the bleeding and remove the expanding pool of blood that is outside the blood vessels.
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Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon
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Hematoma After Breast Augmentation/Lifting
Thank you for the question. it sounds like you have experienced an unfortunate complication of bleeding after your breast surgery. Based on your description the bleeding started after the coughing episode. The coughing episode may have increased the pressure around the breast area and dislodged dislodged a “clot" that was keeping a blood vessel sealed.
Hopefully you have been treated and are doing well at this time.
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Breast augment, bleeding
Your artery did not really rupture. A blood vessel that had been cut during surgery and cauterized to stop it from bleeding had its clot weaken and come off with your cough. This is not at all common, and as the breast gets tight from the bleeding the internal pressure stops the vessel from leaking. But that collection of blood will need to be removed to lessen the chance of a very firm capsular contracture from occuring in the near future. Contact your surgeon right away if you haven't...
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