Dr. Robert Whitfield, a plastic surgeon, discusses patients with both breast implants and mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), a condition that overlaps with POTS and breast implant illness. He notes growing numbers seeking explant surgery and questions how clinicians diagnose MCAS in implant patients.
we had this, um, I, I hit you up on Instagram and then we met last night at Dave's conference and we were just chatting about our patients. And so Dr. Dempsey is a mast cell expert and I've had this ongoing thing with mast cell activation syndrome. And then now there's not just POTS, there's all this mast cell activation, POTS, all these things that I get asked about all the time as a plastic surgeon because I explant, you know, patients for breast implant illness. So that's a kind of a long-winded segue into this. But you were talking to me about how you work your patients up.
If you have something internally like an implant, they'll come out in flight.
I see more and more patients who have been given the diagnosis of mast cell syndrome and have implants. We have a lot of patients
who—
I've lately— well, I had a number of patients come who were nurses who had implants and had been given the diagnosis of mast cell syndrome. And we're going to talk about how you have quantified that.
