I'm 25 years young, 5' 10" and lost about 20 lbs (currently 118) so my device is sitting uncomfortably on my ribs (implanted in my breast tissue) so I was told I'll probably need a pocket revision on the ICD, so where would you put it? So would the breast implants be placed sub muscular or sub glandular, as well as the pacemaker...? Thanks in advance
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This question is impossible to answer. First we live in an age of cup inflation where a bra manufacturers now routinely call a certain cup size much larger size because of vanity sizing in addition it is proportional to your chest circumference and size as a very broad rule of thumb I have used...
But no one can say for sure... but if you're too large and you want to be smaller, you can certainly do that. If you want to find out if your implants are your cause, you can simply have them intentionally deflated in the office to remove the volume and if the implants were your cause,...
Over the years I have occasionally seen flipped implants in position. This is usually when I'm coming back to revise someone else's procedure or in implant set of been in for a very long time. Very rarely an implant can flip during the insertion. This is why I always check to make sure. On the...