Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Breast Implant Removal: Resolving Systemic Symptoms After Negative Workups

16 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A YouTube video (speaker: Robert Whitfield MD) discussing patients who report systemic symptoms despite negative medical workups; the speaker notes that some patients' symptoms improve or resolve after breast implant explantation and that the FDA now acknowledges systemic symptoms related to breast implants. The clip emphasizes clinician trust in patient-reported symptoms and partial symptom resolution post-explantation.

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And if you trust patients to inform you that something's wrong or, you know, and they've gone already for general medical workups and endocrine workups and rheumatologic workups and infectious disease workups, and they're all coming up negative. And then after you explain them, their symptoms improve or resolve. Maybe not 100% of them, and maybe the mechanisms behind their symptoms may not be identical in every patient, but I began to appreciate that there was something there. Now we know. At this point, the FDA acknowledges systemic symptoms related to breast implants and resolution of symptoms in some patients with explantation.