Should I continue my surgery with a doctor who has had one patient death. He performs several BBLs a day and he recently had his first death ever . She died due to fat embolism. Should I continue with him?
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Fat embolus is a very serious and known complication of fat transfer. The probability of embolus is much higher in the setting of fat transfer than for liposuction alone.
A fat embolus occurs when injected fat is inadvertently introduced into a vessel and travels centrally within the vasculature...
Great question. There has been recent literature written about the increase incidence of fat embolism with BBL. What causes this is that the gluteal tissue has a lot of blood supply and if fat is accidentally injected into the larger vessels, it creates an embolism. Unfortunately these blo...