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The emergency surgeon took a broken PIP breast implant bag from the patient’s chest – Photo: TD
On October 5, doctors at JW Hospital Korea (Ho Chi Minh City) underwent emergency surgery to remove the breast pouch and dredged industrial silicon fragments firmly attached to the thoracic gland tissue for patients with BTA (49 years , alive in Da Lat city, Lam Dong).
What is special is that the patient undergoes a breast augmentation with a poor quality Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) silicone bag, the import of which is prohibited and circulated worldwide in 2010. Jean-Claude Mas (France), The owner of the selling company This silicone bag for breast implants was arrested and later convicted of causing a global health scandal.
The patient said that 14 years ago she used breast augmentation in a small salon in District 1 (Ho Chi Minh City). At the time, the chest bag cost $ 2,500 and was advertised by a cosmetologist as “the hippest Frenchwoman.”
However, for the past 3 years, Ms. A. has seen a lot of bruising around her nipples around her nipple, and the itchy, dull breast area is very uncomfortable. Recently, the bruises have turned black, spreading throughout the areola, itching with frequent spasmodic pains.
The MRI results showed that the patient’s right breast pocket had been torn. This condition implies that the silicon from the breast pocket spills out, penetrates the tissues, glands and epidermis of the skin, even overflowing towards the armpit to make the patient always in a state of pain, itching.
The left breast pocket is also dented, deformed, and the chest shows signs of spasmodic wrapping.
Doctors performing emergency surgery remove the breast sac and scrape off the industrial silicon fragments that are attached to the breast tissue. Yellow mucus (a normal chest pocket with a clear color) flows throughout the chest cavity, forcing the team to meticulously remove bits and pieces of industrial silicone that have stuck to the patient’s flesh, then Pump and clean all the fluid from the breast to avoid the risk of breast tissue swelling or breast cancer.
Silicon comes out of the breast pocket, penetrates the tissues, the epidermis of the skin, causing patients to always be in a state of pain, itching – Photo: TD
After almost 4 hours of surgery, Ms. A’s health is now stable, she continues to receive antibiotics to prevent infections.
Dr. Nguyen Phan Tu Dung, director of the hospital, citing information from CNN Television (USA), said that PIP breast bags using industrial silicone are 7 times cheaper than registered silicone. with quality accreditation agency.
This substance is highly corrosive, making it easy to crack and, when spread, can cause burning and inflammation. In particular, this breast pouch has a higher-than-normal rupture rate, and when it ruptures, it can cause inflammation, scarring, and fibrosis.
“PIP chest bags are prohibited from importing and recalled. In Vietnam, this chest bag has never been authorized to import. If it is on the market, it can only be floating contraband,” recommends Dr. Dung Fox.
2,700 women sued “boss” silicone breast augmentation bags
In 2012, Tuoi Tre Online cited information from French police that Jean-Claude Mas, the owner of a business that sells unsatisfactory PIP breast augmentation bags, is about to arrest, convict and jail for fraud.
He is determined to sell around 300,000 silicone breast implants worldwide and admitted for the first time that he “uses unapproved silicone and takes seriously that it can be a health hazard.”
In 2010, the circulation of PIPs was banned worldwide and then the French government recommended that women using PIP breast augmentation bags should undergo surgery to remove them. At that time, some 2,700 women in France filed a lawsuit against Mas.
France forced a business owner to sell PIP breast implants
