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Local complications and subsequent symptom reporting among women with cosmetic breast implants.

Abstract
Epidemiologic studies have found no association between breast implants and cancer or well-defined connective tissue diseases. However, women with cosmetic breast implants continue to report specific as well as nonspecific physical and psychological symptoms after receiving their implants. In an attempt to determine whether local complications of implantation may contribute to this excess of symptom reporting, the authors studied a large cohort of women in Sweden with cosmetic breast implants (n = 1280) and a comparison cohort of women who had cosmetic breast reduction surgery (n = 2211). Both groups of women had operations between 1969 and 1996. Medical record reviews of local complications revealed that approximately 31 percent of the women with cosmetic breast implants had an implant change, implant leakage, or a capsulotomy. Capsulotomies occurred more often in women who were age 35 or older at the time of the operation, had ever smoked, and had implants with a smooth surface. On self-administered questionnaires, symptoms were reported more often by the women who had implants regardless of whether they had local complications. Twenty of the 28 symptoms occurred more frequently among women with local complications and breast implants, compared with the women in the breast reduction comparison group or the women with breast implants but no local complications. This study suggests that local complications, particularly capsular contractures as indicated by capsulotomy, may be an important factor to consider when studying symptom reporting among women with breast implants.
AuthorsJ P Fryzek, L B Signorello, L Hakelius, L Lipworth, J K McLaughlin, W J Blot, O Nyren
JournalPlastic and reconstructive surgery (Plast Reconstr Surg) Vol. 107 Issue 1 Pg. 214-21 (Jan 2001) ISSN: 0032-1052 [Print] United States
PMID11176626 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Topics
  • Adult
  • Breast Implants (adverse effects)
  • Cohort Studies
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mammaplasty (adverse effects)
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Risk Factors
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Sweden

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