Over the past decade or so, more than 350,000 people in the U.S. have reported adverse events related to silicone gel breast implants to the FDA.
Mesh is used most commonly for hernia repair and in pelvic prolapse surgery. Notably, these immune response can take years to develop.surgeons.
That’s why Cohen Tervaert thinks the problem is much bigger than BII, which he suspects afflicts as many as 1 in 5 people with silicone implants . Instead, he calls it, or ASIA. Unlike BII, ASIA has a clear diagnostic protocol , which Cohen Tervaert helped to develop more than a decade ago. But few physicians are trained in the method; to date, it is available only in Dutch.
with ASIA feel better after explanting. Even so, Cohen Tervaert suspects that the longer an implant is in place in a patient susceptible to ASIA, the harder it will be for them to recover.Towt is one of the lucky ones. After the fellow cancer survivor messaged her about her breast implants, she moved quickly to get them removed. Within 48 hours of explanting, Towt says she felt back to her old self. She was golfing within a week, and wakeboarding within a month.
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