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Breast implant illness: scientific evidence of its existence
Expert Rev Clin Immunol. 2021 Dec 9. doi: 10.1080/1744666X.2022.2010546. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: More than one million breast augmentation procedures using silicone breast implants (SBI) have been performed worldwide. Adverse events of SBI include local complications such as pain, swelling, redness, infections, capsular contracture, implant rupture and gel-bleed. Furthermore, patients experience systemic symptoms such as chronic fatigue, arthralgias, myalgias, pyrexia, sicca, and cognitive dysfunction. These symptoms received different names such as autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants ...
Source: Expert Review of Clinical Immunology - December 9, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: J W Cohen Tervaert N Mohazab D Redmond C van Eeden M Osman Source Type: research