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Tummy Tuck Death Rate
i know this sounds morbid, but i really fear death from getting a tummy tuck. what is the actual risk in terms of this?
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Tummy Tuck Death Risk--Not Zero, but nothing has zero risk!
Published mortality rates associated with tummy tuck range from 0.02% to 0.16%. These include all causes of death for one month after surgery, with the most common one being pulmonary embolism (blood clot from legs to lungs). To put this in perspective, the death rate for elective C-section delivery is about 0.02%, with emergency C-sections having a slightly higher risk. Even a normal vaginal delivery has a death rate of 0.0067%, by some estimates.
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Tummy tuck complications
This is a morbid question but the odds are always good to know. I've read from 0.04% to 20 per 100,000 and other incidences. It is important to know that the deaths are predominantly from clots after surgery that start in the legs and can propagate to other parts. This is typically due to immobility and lack of proper prevention. Discuss these topics with your board certified plastic surgeon as he has likely spent a considerable amount of time thinking over...
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Tummy tuck
The risks are extremely low. The people with the highest risk factors are ones who smoke, prior history of blood clots, combination with other major procedures, history of cancer, and taking higher estrogen containing birth control pills.
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Tummy tuck death rate
The risk of death from abdominoplasty is very likely lower than the chances of dying in your car.
Some patients are at higher risk of blood clots and pulmonary embolism, the usual causes of death after this procedure.
An experienced and careful plastic surgeon will look at your medical history and take appropriate precautions. These include the use of air-driven leg compressors during and after the operation, and possibly blood thinners.
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Tummy tuck is very safe.
There is a tiny risk to everything, including crossing the street. If you want a number, I would say 1 in 10,000. But this number includes everybody.
If you just look at good surgical candidates, safe surgical planning, and proper blood clot prevention, then the risk is much less.
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The risk is very low for healthy patients
The risk of major complications and death is extremely low for the healthy patients. The combination of the full pre-op evaluation , performing the surgery in a accredited surgery center and limiting the surgery time has helped to reduce the risk.
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Tummy Tuck Death Rate.
There is risk with any surgical procedure. As cosmetic body contouring procedures are all elective procedures, our goal is to minimize risk as much as possible and as noted it is quite low. Appropriate medical screening with history and physical, use of special stockings to prevent venous thromboembolic events,limiting length of multiple procedures may all help. Doing the surgery in an appropriate setting, either hospital or certified surgicenter with a board-certified...
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VTE events after TT surgery are uncommon
Probably the most feared fatal complication related to TT surgery is a venous thromboembolism event resulting in a massive pulmonary embolism. We take maximal precautions to prevent this complication. The use of intra-operative sequential compression boots, using them post-operatively at home, and the use of preventative blood thinners (Lovenox) after surgery have helped to reduce the rate of this complication. Shortening the surgery time for combination cases to less than 6 hours has...
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Tummy tuck death rate.
I have heard numbers ranging from 1 out of 4000 at the highest to 1 out of 40,000 at the lower end of the scale and these deal primarily with deep venous thrombosis when tummy tuck is combined with liposuction
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Tummy tuck death rate
The death rate from a cosmetic surgical procedure is extremely low, however it can happen like with any surgery. Precautions are taken with every surgery to insure the safety of our patients. Taking an appropriate medical history and properly screening patients lowers the risk.
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Thank you so much for answering this question! I have surgery in 36 days and am freaking out this helped a lot!