Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Autologous Transplantation: Body's Rejection & Age Impact Explained

19 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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A short YouTube segment by Robert Whitfield MD explaining autologous transplantation (autograft = using the patient’s own tissue), noting that autologous grafts should not be rejected by the body, and emphasizing that patient age affects outcomes — near age 20 outcomes are generally excellent, whereas near age 80 they are more challenging and require more careful evaluation and thorough preoperative 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.