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Silicone Breast Implants: A Rare Cause of Pleural Effusion

Pleural effusions are one of the rarest complications reported in patients with silicone gel filled breast implants. The silicone implants have potential to provoke chronic inflammation of pleura and subsequent pulmonary complications such as pleural effusion. Herein, we report a 44-year-old female...

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Autores principales: Shaik, Imam H., Gandrapu, Bindu, Gonzalez-Ibarra, Fernando, Flores, David, Matta, Jyoti, Syed, Amer K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4674589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26693375
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/652918
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author Shaik, Imam H.
Gandrapu, Bindu
Gonzalez-Ibarra, Fernando
Flores, David
Matta, Jyoti
Syed, Amer K.
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description Pleural effusions are one of the rarest complications reported in patients with silicone gel filled breast implants. The silicone implants have potential to provoke chronic inflammation of pleura and subsequent pulmonary complications such as pleural effusion. Herein, we report a 44-year-old female who presented with left sided pleural effusion, six weeks after a silicone breast implantation surgery. The most common infectious, inflammatory, and malignant causes of pleural effusion were excluded with pleural fluid cytology and cultures. With recurrent effusion in the setting of recent surgery, the chemical reaction to silicone breast implants was sought and exploration was performed which revealed foreign body reaction (FBR) to silicone material. The symptoms dramatically improved after the explantation.
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spelling pubmed-46745892015-12-21 Silicone Breast Implants: A Rare Cause of Pleural Effusion Shaik, Imam H. Gandrapu, Bindu Gonzalez-Ibarra, Fernando Flores, David Matta, Jyoti Syed, Amer K. Case Rep Pulmonol Case Report Pleural effusions are one of the rarest complications reported in patients with silicone gel filled breast implants. The silicone implants have potential to provoke chronic inflammation of pleura and subsequent pulmonary complications such as pleural effusion. Herein, we report a 44-year-old female who presented with left sided pleural effusion, six weeks after a silicone breast implantation surgery. The most common infectious, inflammatory, and malignant causes of pleural effusion were excluded with pleural fluid cytology and cultures. With recurrent effusion in the setting of recent surgery, the chemical reaction to silicone breast implants was sought and exploration was performed which revealed foreign body reaction (FBR) to silicone material. The symptoms dramatically improved after the explantation. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4674589/ /pubmed/26693375 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/652918 Text en Copyright © 2015 Imam H. Shaik et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Silicone Breast Implants: A Rare Cause of Pleural Effusion
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4674589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26693375
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/652918
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