A short YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD discussing health effects of ruptured breast implants. Whitfield asserts that ruptured implant gel interacts with surrounding breast tissue, causing inflammation, and describes a biochemical pathway in which tissue oleic acid can produce an oxylipin called "oxylipin tenho," which a recent paper reportedly found elevated in patients with fatigue related to breast implant illness.
The implant. If it's ruptured, the gel that's ruptured is going to interact with your tissues. And don't let anybody try to lead you down the road that it can't. That interaction is not normal and it leads to more inflammation. Now, if there's an infection in there or a low grade contaminant like I've described that can interact with your tissues and specifically a fatty acid called oleic acid in your tissue, your breast tissue, that produces something called a molecule called oxylipin tenho. And recently a paper has shown that this molecule is increased in patients who are suffering with more fatigue symptoms from breast implant illness or associated with breast implant illness.
