Robert Whitfield MD discusses Mycobacterium infections in plastic surgery patients. These opportunistic infections often signal serious immunosuppression, sometimes linked to breast implant illness or toxic mold exposure. The bacteria can contaminate implants during surgery or indicate the patient's immune system is already compromised.
If everybody remembers from the AIDS crisis, Mycobacterium avium was a big problem in patients with aids.
But mycobacterium.
In a plastic surgery patient means, to me, they're significantly.
Immunosuppressed or.
It'S transplanted there through contaminate.
So the immunosuppression can happen because of what's in the breast implant illness itself. Right. Like the things that are in there or toxic mold in your environment is immunosuppressives. I used to have suppressed immunity and. Yeah, all sorts of stuff will grow during that. And then this stuff takes advantage of it. Yeah, it's an opportunistic infection. You have to have suppression in order.
To have this be a problem.
