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Title: Illegal Silicone Buttock Injections Can Be Deadly: Experts
Post by: Shana A on October 25, 2011, 08:47:40 AM
Post by: Shana A on October 25, 2011, 08:47:40 AM
Illegal Silicone Buttock Injections Can Be Deadly: Experts
At least one woman died and others came close after illicit procedures from non-physicians
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=658122 (http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=658122)
MONDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- The 30-year-old woman arrived at the Henry Ford Hospital emergency room in Detroit out of breath and coughing blood.
It didn't take long for doctors to figure out why: The woman admitted to having been at a party at a hotel five days prior at which she -- and others -- received injections of liquid silicone to "enhance" the buttocks and various body parts.
The silicone was not the medical silicone that is sometimes used for implants, but the type easily procured at hardware stores like Home Depot. The fat solvent used to make the silicone had quickly traveled to her lungs and gotten stuck in the airways, resulting in "silicone embolism syndrome," or clots, in this case, in the smaller vessels in her lungs.
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Illicit silicone injections risky, even deadly: doctors
The Canadian Press
Date: Monday Oct. 24, 2011 7:23 AM ET
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20111024/silicone-injections-risks-111024/ (http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20111024/silicone-injections-risks-111024/)
TORONTO — Doctors are warning consumers about the dangers of a backstreet cosmetic practice known as "pumping" or "plumping," in which liquid silicone is injected into the buttocks or other body parts to enhance their size and shape.
Injections of even medically approved liquid silicone are rarely used by physicians because of the risk the substance will migrate into the bloodstream or other tissues.
But injecting large quantities of what is often commercial-grade silicone intended for home repair can lead to serious illness and even death.
At least one woman died and others came close after illicit procedures from non-physicians
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=658122 (http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=658122)
MONDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- The 30-year-old woman arrived at the Henry Ford Hospital emergency room in Detroit out of breath and coughing blood.
It didn't take long for doctors to figure out why: The woman admitted to having been at a party at a hotel five days prior at which she -- and others -- received injections of liquid silicone to "enhance" the buttocks and various body parts.
The silicone was not the medical silicone that is sometimes used for implants, but the type easily procured at hardware stores like Home Depot. The fat solvent used to make the silicone had quickly traveled to her lungs and gotten stuck in the airways, resulting in "silicone embolism syndrome," or clots, in this case, in the smaller vessels in her lungs.
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Illicit silicone injections risky, even deadly: doctors
The Canadian Press
Date: Monday Oct. 24, 2011 7:23 AM ET
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20111024/silicone-injections-risks-111024/ (http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20111024/silicone-injections-risks-111024/)
TORONTO — Doctors are warning consumers about the dangers of a backstreet cosmetic practice known as "pumping" or "plumping," in which liquid silicone is injected into the buttocks or other body parts to enhance their size and shape.
Injections of even medically approved liquid silicone are rarely used by physicians because of the risk the substance will migrate into the bloodstream or other tissues.
But injecting large quantities of what is often commercial-grade silicone intended for home repair can lead to serious illness and even death.