Aesthetic plastic surgery
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Aesthetic plastic surgery · Apr 2019
Multicenter StudyAssessing Improvement of Patient Satisfaction Following Facelift Surgery Using the FACE-Q Scales: A Prospective and Multicenter Study.
Assessment of patient satisfaction following an aesthetic surgery has shown an increasing trend over the past years. To date, there is no prospective and comprehensive study evaluating this aspect after surgical facial and neck rejuvenation. The aim of the current work was to address patient satisfaction after face and neck lift surgery using a validated questionnaire. ⋯ 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 .
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Aesthetic plastic surgery · Dec 2015
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyThe Efficacy and Safety of Lidocaine-Containing Hyaluronic Acid Dermal Filler for Treatment of Nasolabial Folds: A Multicenter, Randomized Clinical Study.
The use of injectable hyaluronic acid-based gel is well established in aesthetic facial procedures especially on the nasolabial fold (NLF). ⋯ 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 Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266.
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Aesthetic plastic surgery · Apr 2014
Multicenter Study Clinical TrialStabilized hyaluronic acid gel for volume restoration and contouring of the buttocks: 24-month efficacy and safety.
Stabilized hyaluronic acid (HA) of nonanimal origin manufactured using the patented NASHA® technology has been developed for use in body shaping. This study was performed to assess the safety and efficacy of stabilized HA gel when used for volume restoration and contouring of the buttocks. ⋯ 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 .
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Aesthetic plastic surgery · Jul 2006
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyPectus excavatum breast and chest deformity: indications for aesthetic plastic surgery versus thoracic surgery in a multicenter experience.
Breast and chest wall disfiguration attributable to a funnel chest is an aesthetically and sometimes functionally debilitating deformity requiring surgical correction. Whereas extensive and combined deformities of the ventral chest wall are classically corrected using a so-called minimally invasive repair of the pectus excavatum, a modified Ravitch repair, or the minimized Erlangen repair, plastic surgeons are mostly challenged with alloplastic implant corrections of mild funnel chests. The authors have introduced an endoscopic method for placement of customized implants to restore the visible and nonfunctionally disturbing deformation of mild funnel chests when only the sternal plate is involved. This study compared these different plastic surgical and thoracic surgical approaches in a multicenter experience to develop a clinical algorithm and to identify those patients not requiring bony correction but rather alloplastic endoscopic implant correction alone. ⋯ Whereas with combined deformity of the sternal plate and the rib cage, a modified Ravitch repair yields good results, the endoscopic soft tissue correction with customized implants helps to avoid unsightly scars, allows for safe hemostasis in the dissection pocket, and leads to enhanced patient satisfaction. In the case of major chest wall deformity with orthopedic and functional relevance, a combination of the minimally invasive procedures (e.g., endoscopic correction and Erlangen repair) seems to show both optimized cosmetic results and maximized functionality.
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Aesthetic plastic surgery · Jul 2003
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyComparison of the incidence and predicted risk of early surgical site infections after breast reduction.
In plastic surgery, clean, elective operations such as breast reductions are anticipated to have low risk factors for infections (1.1-2.1%). To further lower or prevent surgical site infections (SSI), the efficacy of a prophylactic administration of anti-microbacterials remains a current controversial issue in plastic surgery. We report here the findings of a retrospective study in which we examined two groups of patients with breast reductions, one of which received a single-shot antimicrobacterial prophylaxis with cefuroxime preoperatively and the other who were given no anti-microbacterials. ⋯ According to the SENIC score, breast reductions can be classified also as medium risk of SSI with a predicted risk of 3.9%, which showed a nearly perfect correspondence with the actual SSI incidence in both study groups. The reason for this increased, medium risk is the factor "operation time > 2 h," which is obviously an inherent risk factor in breast reductions. Among the multitude of patient and nonpatient SSI risk factors, in healthy women operation time was the only factor which could be clearly identified.