Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

How a Surgeon Minimizes Complications from Explant Surgery

7 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD describing his personal experience with explant surgery complications. He reports having performed almost 1,200 explants, observing pneumothorax in five cases (very low incidence), and not having had a hematoma in several years.

Questions this video answers

Almost 1,200 explants.

Five cases.

No — he reports not having had a hematoma in several years.

Personally, I've done over almost 1200 explants at this point. And that instance where you get a pneumothorax has happened to me in five cases in, you know, almost 1200, you know, explants. So super low incidence. And I haven't had a hematoma, which is the next thing that I would actually be more concerned about, which is bleeding. And I haven't had one of those in, you know, several years, actually, so you. All those things should be low.