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Most breast reconstructions techniques that are used nowadays relie on the patient's own abominal, back, thigh or buttock tissue to complete the procedure. Thiese tissue can be used as flaps for breast reconstruction surgery. Unfortunately fat and skin from other donor who are not genetically identical, will be rejected by the recipient.
Unless the person effected is an identical twin, it is not practical and highly unlikely that donated fat or skin will be of any benefit to a breast cancer patient.
Modern breast reconstructions methods do not utilize skin or fat grafts from others for multiple reasons; they produce poor results (even from a suitable matched donor) and are rejected by people with normal immune systems. Most breast reconstructions are done using the patients' own tissues or with a combination of the patient's tissues and either tissue expanders, implants and Alloderm.
What a generous thought, but unfortunately the recipient would reject that tissue unless she were genetically identical to the donor. Fortunately, there are much easier ways to help cancer patients! Best wishes, /nsn.
It is pretty common to be uncomfortable while the expansion process is ongoing. When you change to implants they are much softer and move with the body better than the expanders. I agree that putting the final implants above the muscle is probably not a good idea unless you have very thick...
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I DO think that SOME of the Tummy skin COULD be used as a DIEP flap breast Reconstruction (pending a face to face examination). However, you will NOT be getting a Tummy Tuck thrown in at the expense of the insurance company. Ethically speaking, your surgeon just needs to remove the portion of...
You may or may not need a surgery on the unaffected breast. We can often create a very natural looking reconstruction, especially if the nipple is spared. I often find that with a nipple sparing mastectomy, I can position the nipple in a more symmetric location. If you do...
These patients have a very high complication rate. The most important reason why this happens is because the radiation has already caused permanent damage to the tissues by restricting blood flow. Attempting to reconstruct these tissues when they have already been damaged is less predictable for...
Dear hhtw2e, Breast reconstruction after radiation treatment can be very challenging. Although there are certainly some reports of successful reconstruction using implant based approaches, in my experience using your own tissue more consistently provides a natural appearing...
