Robert Whitfield MD removes leftover capsular tissue from a breast implant illness patient. About 46% of implant capsules contain biofilm according to recent research, though his experience shows 35-40%. He's sending the tissue for genetic analysis to identify bacteria.
Whitfield in Austin. And we just did a capsulectomy because the patient had implants removed elsewhere, but still remains symptomatic. And, you know, in about 46% of patients, you can have biofilm in a recently published study, and then in my experience, around 35 to 40%. So here on the right side, you can see an entire layer of capsules left, basically front and back, and that's fused together, so quite a bit of material. And then this one on the left was more contracted down like a package. But we sent this off to get it examined with quantitative PCR next gen analysis, and she should do much better after this.
