Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Autologous Transplantation: Body's Rejection & Age Impact Explained

23 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube talk by Robert Whitfield MD explaining autologous transplantation. He defines autologous transplant as using the patient's own tissue (taken from one area and moved to another), notes that autologous grafts generally should not be rejected by the body, and emphasizes age as an important factor—patients near 20 tend to have excellent outcomes while those near 80 face more challenges and require more thorough preoperative workups.

Questions this video answers

Using the patient's own tissue—taking from one area and putting into another area.

Closer to age 20, everything works great; closer to age 80, outcomes are more challenging and require more thorough workups.

So that's the only instance of it. Because you would. You would reject it. Body would reject. Yeah. So when you're doing autologous, that means yourself, right? You're auto transplanting, you're taking from one area and just put it into another area. And that should work uniformly well. I always tell everybody the same things. The closer you are to 20, everything works great. The closer you are to 80 things, it's a little bit more challenging. So you have to take more care. We have to do really thorough workups.