Aesthetic Surgery in Transplant Patients: A Single Center Experience.

CONCLUSIONS: Transplant patients are a special group of patients who receive long-term immunosuppressive treatment and medications like high-dose steroids. These treatments can lead to dermal atrophy and cause pseudo-skin laxity. Removal of excess skin and fat tissue should be considered. Efforts should be made to avoid complications such as skin necrosis and unpredictable wound healing problems when resecting the excess tissue. Preoperative consultation with transplant surgeons and keeping operative times short are other important factors. Body dysmorphologies that interfere with normal life activities and demand for younger appearance are the main reasons of aesthetic procedures. Transplant patients can be operated safely with preoperative planning, consultation with transplant surgeons, and close follow-up. PMID: 29528026 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: Exp Clin Transplant Source Type: research