DVT Possible After Liposuction?

Any period of true immobility can cause a DVT, awake or asleep. You must remember that even when we sleep, we tend to move every 5 minutes so that is why you do not dvelop clots every night. However, people are known to develop clots after prolonged sitting on planes, buses or trains. In fact, many overseas airplane instructions recommend calf exercises to lower the risk of clotting.
Many factors can effect the risk of developing a clot. It is not yet known whether the liposuction procedure specifically increases the risk.

DVT with possible pulmonary embolus (blood clot to lung) can happen after or during surgery. Most physicians now are using sequential compression stockings to try and decrease the incidence of DVT, but it is still a possiblility although not a high probability.
DVT seems to happen more in longer procedures, people who smoke, people on hormone replacement, and people with a family history.
Talk to your doctor about your risk profile so that appropriate measures can be taken.
Good Luck,
Dr T

In more than 30 years of doing liposuction, I have never had a patient have this problem. Furthermore, when we do long surgeries, we place compression stockings on the patient to prevent this.
Patients are up and walking after surgery so there should be no problem.