Natrelle Silicone Breast Implant Follow-up Study: Demographics, Lifestyle, and Surgical Characteristics of More Than 5000 Reconstruction Subjects.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:A large, multicenter, 10-year observational study is comparing the long-term safety and effectiveness of Natrelle silicone breast implants versus saline implants or national norms. METHODS:Women who underwent primary augmentation, revision-augmentation, primary reconstruction, or revision-reconstruction were invited to participate. Enrolled subjects had completed surgery and received one implant or matching implants. Baseline demographics, health, lifestyle, and surgical characteristics are presented here for adult subjects who underwent primary reconstruction or revision-reconstruction. RESULTS:Of 5637 subjects who underwent reconstruction surgery (86.7% primary reconstruction; 13.3% revision-reconstruction), 5407 received silicone implants and 230 received saline implants; 72.

SUBMITTER: Picha GJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4560222 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature