Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Breast Explant & Microvascular Reconstruction: Expert Insights

25 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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A short expert excerpt (YouTube video) where Robert Whitfield MD discusses his experience treating cancer patients with implant-related complications and his approach of removing implants (explant) and performing microvascular (autologous) breast reconstruction to relieve symptoms using the patient’s own tissue.

I had so many years of experience just with cancer patients and dealing with different implant based problems from radiation therapy and capture contracture and multiple surgeries. It wasn't a big stretch for me to explant somebody into a microvascular reconstruction if they were having symptoms and know that those symptoms were going to go away because it was their own tissue that was being transplanted.