TY - JOUR
T1 - Mortality Rate in Breast Implant Surgery
T2 - Is an Additional Procedure Worthwhile to Mitigate BIA-ALCL Risk?
AU - Santanelli di Pompeo, Fabio
AU - Sorotos, Michail
AU - Clemens, Mark W.
AU - Paolini, Guido
AU - Anibaldi, Paolo
AU - Davoli, Marina
AU - Baglio, Giovanni
AU - Pinnarelli, Luigi
AU - Ferranti, Margherita
AU - Cerza, Francesco
AU - Cicala, Stefano Domenico
AU - Firmani, Guido
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022. The Author(s).
PY - 2023/6/1
Y1 - 2023/6/1
N2 - BACKGROUND: Because of poor knowledge of risks and benefits, prophylactic explantation of high BIA-ALCL risk breast implant (BI) is not indicated. Several surgical risks have been associated with BI surgery, with mortality being the most frightening. Primary aim of this study is to assess mortality rate in patients undergoing breast implant surgery for aesthetic or reconstructive indication. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this retrospective observational cohort study, Breast Implant Surgery Mortality rate (BISM) was calculated as the perioperative mortality rate among 99,690 patients who underwent BI surgery for oncologic and non-oncologic indications. Mean age at first implant placement (A1P), implant lifespan (IL), and women's life expectancy (WLE) were obtained from a literature review and population database. RESULTS: BISM rate was 0, and mean A1P was 34 years for breast augmentation, and 50 years for breast reconstruction. Regardless of indication, overall mean A1P can be presumed to be 39 years, while mean BIL was estimated as 9 years and WLE as 85 years. CONCLUSION: This study first showed that the BISM risk is 0. This information, and the knowledge that BI patients will undergo one or more revisional procedures if not explantation during their lifetime, may help surgeons in the decision-making process of a pre-emptive substitution or explant in patients at high risk of BIA-ALCL. Our recommendation is that patients with existing macrotextured implants do have a relative indication for explantation and total capsulectomy. The final decision should be shared between patient and surgeon following an evaluation of benefits, surgical risks and comorbidities. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE IV: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
AB - BACKGROUND: Because of poor knowledge of risks and benefits, prophylactic explantation of high BIA-ALCL risk breast implant (BI) is not indicated. Several surgical risks have been associated with BI surgery, with mortality being the most frightening. Primary aim of this study is to assess mortality rate in patients undergoing breast implant surgery for aesthetic or reconstructive indication. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this retrospective observational cohort study, Breast Implant Surgery Mortality rate (BISM) was calculated as the perioperative mortality rate among 99,690 patients who underwent BI surgery for oncologic and non-oncologic indications. Mean age at first implant placement (A1P), implant lifespan (IL), and women's life expectancy (WLE) were obtained from a literature review and population database. RESULTS: BISM rate was 0, and mean A1P was 34 years for breast augmentation, and 50 years for breast reconstruction. Regardless of indication, overall mean A1P can be presumed to be 39 years, while mean BIL was estimated as 9 years and WLE as 85 years. CONCLUSION: This study first showed that the BISM risk is 0. This information, and the knowledge that BI patients will undergo one or more revisional procedures if not explantation during their lifetime, may help surgeons in the decision-making process of a pre-emptive substitution or explant in patients at high risk of BIA-ALCL. Our recommendation is that patients with existing macrotextured implants do have a relative indication for explantation and total capsulectomy. The final decision should be shared between patient and surgeon following an evaluation of benefits, surgical risks and comorbidities. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE IV: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
KW - BIA-ALCL
KW - Breast Explantation
KW - Breast Implant Surgery
KW - Macrotextured
KW - Mortality
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U2 - 10.1007/s00266-022-03138-5
DO - 10.1007/s00266-022-03138-5
M3 - Review article
C2 - 36376583
AN - SCOPUS:85141947161
SN - 0364-216X
VL - 47
SP - 914
EP - 926
JO - Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
JF - Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
IS - 3
ER -