Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Autologous Transplantation: Body's Rejection & Age Impact Explained

30 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD explaining autologous transplantation (using a patient’s own tissue) and practical considerations. The speaker defines autologous transplantation as transferring tissue from one area of a person to another and emphasizes age-dependent outcomes: near age 20, procedures "work great," while approaching age 80 presents more challenges requiring thorough workups and extra care.

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.