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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

Silicone breast implants and autoimmune rheumatic diseases: myth or reality
Purpose of review: In the present review, recent findings regarding silicone breast implants (SBIs) complicated by rheumatic autoimmune diseases are described. Recent findings: Despite changes in the principal constituents of the silicone implants during the past 50 years, silicone remained an adjuvant that may ’bleed’ and subsequently may be a chronic stimulus to the immune system resulting in similar clinical manifestations as 50 years ago. Silicones are spread throughout the body and can be detected in tissues and the central nervous system. Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome by adjuvants (ASIA), allergies, autoimmun...
Source: Current Opinion in Rheumatology - June 2, 2017 Category: Rheumatology Tags: INFECTIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF AUTOIMMUNITY: Edited by Yehuda Shoenfeld Source Type: research