Breast implants after double lung transplant?

    Congratulations on your transplant!  I think once your transplant surgeon would be comfortable with performing the breast augmentation, you should find a plastic surgeon you trust to perform it.  Best of luck.

Hold on a second - if you are getting a lung transplant, then presumably you will be taking a large number of immune-suppressing medications to prevent rejection of the lungs, particularly in the first few months after the transplant.  

These can slow down healing, increase the risk of infection, and have other influences on subsequent surgery, like breast augmentation.  I'm not so sure that it would be a wise idea to do this.

The surgeon you should ask would be the transplant surgeon.  I agree that it would probably be okay, but the transplant doctor should have the final say in your situation.  Best of luck with your transplant surgery.  I am sure it will go great!

Faith:

I hope and pray that your double lung surgery is successful. My concern here is that you will probably be on significant immunosuppressive drugs after surgery for the lung transplant. I do not have any experience with lung transplant, but I do have a fair amount of experience with kidney, heart, pancreas and liver transplants from my general surgical residency training. All of these patients were placed on significant amounts of medication to prevent rejection and this happens by way of suppressing your bodie's ability to fight infection. This may increase your risk for infection after surgery (although it doesn't mean that his will happen) and maybe even increase your risk for the development of certain malignanices possibly including breast cancer (although Im not sure if this is true for breast cancer specifically).

I would suggest that you consult a breast surgeon to see if it is safe for you to proceed with breast augmentation surgery based upon which immunosuppressive drugs you will be placed on and your family history for breast cancer if any, and discuss your immunosupressive regimen with your plastic surgeon and thoracic surgeon/pulmonologists to see just what extra risks there may be to determine if it is worth proceeding.

 

I wish you the very best for your transplant.

I would advise you to wait until you have had your lung transplant and you are in a stable condition before proceeding to any other surgery.