Liposuction

src: upload.wikimedia.org

Liposuction, or just lipo, is a type of cosmetic surgery that removes fat from the human body in an attempt to change its shape. The evidence does not support effects on weight beyond a few months and does not seem to affect obesity-related problems. In the United States, this is the most common cosmetic surgery.

Serious complications include deep venous thrombosis, organ perforation, bleeding, and infection. Death occurs in about one-tenths of thousands of cases.

This procedure may be performed under general, regional, or local anesthesia. Then it involves using a cannula and a negative pressure to suck fat. It is believed to work best in people with normal weight and good skin elasticity.

While the permanently sucked fat cells disappear, after a few months overall body fat generally returns to the same level as it was before the treatment. This despite maintaining diet and exercise before. While the fat returns somewhat to the treated area, most of the increase in fat occurs in the abdominal area. Visceral fat - the fat around the internal organs - is increasing, and this condition has been linked to life-shortening diseases such as diabetes, stroke, and heart attacks.

Video Liposuction

Usage

Liposuction is commonly used in an attempt to change body shape. Weight loss from liposuction appears to be short-term with few long-term effects. After a few months, the fat usually returns and redistributes. Liposuction does not help obesity-related metabolic disorders such as insulin resistance. It can also be used to remove excess fat in chronic lymphoedema conditions.

Maps Liposuction

Risk

There is a spectrum of complications that may occur because each liposuction - the risk increases when the treated area includes a larger percentage of the body, numerous incisions, large amounts of tissue removed, and concurrent surgery performed at the same time..

Some of the side effects and complications include but are not limited to the following:

Death
Pain, which may be temporary or chronic
Redistribution of post-liposuction or post liposuction liposuction liposuction
Bruises
Infection can be a serious problem.
Embolism can occur when sagging fat enters blood through a blood vessel that ruptures during liposuction. The pieces of fat can end up in the lungs, or even the brain. Fat emboli may cause permanent disability or, in some cases, be fatal.
The puncture of an organ (visceral perforation) may require surgery to repair. They can also be fatal.
Seroma is the union of serum, a straw-colored liquid from your blood, in an area where the tissue has been removed.
Paresthesia (a change of sensation that may be caused by nerve compression) is a sensation that changes in the liposuction site. This can be an increase in sensitivity (pain), or numbness in the area. In some cases, this sensation change may be permanent.
Swelling, in some cases, may last for weeks or months after liposuction.
Skin necrosis occurs when the skin above the liposuction site changes color and falls. Large areas of skin necrosis can be infected by bacteria or microorganisms.
Burns can occur during liposuction with the help of ultrasound if the ultrasound probe gets hot.
Liquid imbalance can affect you after you return home. This condition can lead to serious illnesses such as heart problems, excess fluid collection in the lungs, or kidney problems.
Toxicity of anesthesia due to the use of lidocaine, a skin-deadening drug, may cause mild headache, anxiety, drowsiness, ringing in the ears, slurred speech, metallic taste in the mouth, numbness of the lips and tongue, chills, muscle twitching and seizures. The toxicity of lidocaine can cause the heart to stop.
The scar on the incision is usually small and faded over time, although some may be larger or more prominent.
Deformity, Corrugated or wavy appearance or more severe deformity may occur at the site of liposuction following the procedure.

Mega Liposuction for Larger Patients // PATIENT BEFORE & AFTER ...

src: i.ytimg.com

Technique

In general, the fat is removed through the cannula (vacuum tube) and aspirator (sucker). Liposuction techniques can be categorized by the amount of fluid injection and by the mechanism in which the cannula works.

The technique of liposuction with the help of ultrasound used in the 1980s and 1990s was associated with tissue damage cases, usually from excessive exposure to ultrasound energy. The third generation UAL device overcomes this problem by using pulsed energy delivery and a special probe that allows doctors to safely remove excess fat.

Sutures

Doctors disagree on scarring problems by not sewing compared to allowed swelling resolution by allowing open sores to drain the fluid. Due to a small incision, and the amount of fluid that must flow out is great, some surgeons choose to let the incision open, while others only partially sew, leaving room for fluid to flow out.

Liposuction Portland - Hillsboro Oregon - Liposculpture

src: www.drhayescosmeticsurgery.com

History

The relatively modern technique for body formation and fat removal was first performed by the French surgeon Charles Dujarier but the 1926 case which resulted in the cutting of a French dancer's foot due to excessive tissue removal and overly tight sutures made back interest in body contouring for decades.

Liposuction evolved from work in the late 1960s from European surgeons using techniques to cut fat, which is confined to regions without much blood vessels due to the amount of bleeding caused by the technique. In the mid-1970s Arpad and Giorgio Fischer invented techniques using blunt cannula associated with suction; they use it only to remove fat on the outside thighs. Illouz and Fournier expand the work of Fischers to the entire body, which they can use using different sized cannula. Illouz then developed a "wet" technique in which fat tissue is injected with saline and hyaluronidase, which help dissolve the tissue that holds fat, before being sucked. Lidocaine is also added as a local anesthetic. Fournier also advocated the use of compression after surgery, and traveled and lectured to spread the technique. The Europeans have undertaken procedures under general anesthesia; in the 1980s American dermatologists pioneered techniques that allowed only local anesthetics to be used. Jeffrey Klein published a method known as "tumescent" in which large amounts of lidocaine are very dilute, along with epinephrine to help control bleeding via vasoconstriction, and sodium bicarbonate as a buffer agent.

In 2015 liposuction goes beyond breast enlargement surgery as the most common cosmetic procedure performed in the US.