Brazilian Butt Lift-Associated Mortality: The South Florida Experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Brazilian butt lift (BBL) surgery has been the fastest growing aesthetic surgical procedure over the past decade. By 2017, the risk of death from pulmonary fat (PFE) was identified, earning the BBL the highest mortality rate of any aesthetic surgical procedure. South Florida carries the highest BBL mortality by far in the nation.

Objectives

The purpose of this study was to explore the factors involved in making South Florida an outlier in terms of BBL mortality.

Methods

The anatomic findings of the gluteal dissections from 11 post-BBL surgery autopsies (22 hemibuttocks) were assessed for commonalities. The public records of patients who died from BBL-related fat emboli were examined to determine commonalities.

Results

All BBL PFE cases had fat grafts

SUBMITTER: Pazmino P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9896146 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature