PROMOTION
POSSIBILITIES OF ULTRASONOGRAPHIC MONITORING OF MAMMARY GLANDS AFTER AQUAFILLING BREAST AUGMENTATION® (ABA)
This article discusses a potential screening method to assess the impact of Aquafilling Breast Augmentation® (ABA) on the mammary glands and surrounding tissues
Patient 1, 45 years old, 9 years after ABA I N THE WORLD for OF
aesthetic medicine, there has been a recent increase in demand
breast
augmentation and soft tissue shape correction procedures
to the breast. The number of patients who wish to enlarge the breast soft tissues or improve the shape of their breast is the reason why surgeons continually search new minimally-invasive methods. Currently, growing demand for
Aquafilling Breast Augmentation® (ABA) is being observed in the aesthetic market. It is a minimally-invasive procedure performed under local anaesthesia, with a short and favourable postoperative period, through the application
of the hydrophilic 97–98% gel
Aquafilling®. It is a volumising filler comprising
physiological
solution of sodium chloride and 2–3% linear polyamide.
Figure 2 Ultrasound structure of the left mammary gland. (A) Patient 1, 45 years old, 9 years after ABA; (B) Patient 2, 26 years old, 2 years after ABA
The advantages of Aquafilling® are
ARTUR ZLENKO, MD, ‘Medicap’ Medical Centre, Lugansk, Ukraine; SERGIY USOV, MD, Member of ISAPS, IPRAS, Clinic ‘Sigma’, Lugansk, Ukraine; IRYNA VASYLENKO, Marketing and Sales Manager, Biomatrix Asia Limited, Hong Kong. email:
info@aquafilling.com web:
www.aquafilling.com Manufacturer: Matrixcell, Ltd., Czech Republic
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its high biological adaptability, caused by the content of physiological solution in the filler, and its expressed plasticity as a result of the spatial structure of the gel. The gel is injected in the retromammary region using a 16–18 G implantation needle or cannula (sub- mammary or upper lateral access). After application of the gel according to the methodology of ABA, the patient can return to her social life just 1 day after treatment.
Study objective In the present study, the authors aimed to evaluate the possibilities of ultrasonographic monitoring of
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mammary glands of patients who underwent ABA. The study tasks concerned the
following: ■To examine the sonographic structure of mammary glands after ABA
■To evaluate the dynamics of sonographic pictures of mammary glands with different terms after implantation
■To examine the characteristics of blood flow in the mammary gland tissues after ABA
■To evaluate identification possibilities of the development of any abnormal processes in the mammary gland tissues in
Figure 2: Ultrasound structure of the left mammary gland
Figure 1 Ultrasound structure of the right mammary gland. (A) Patient 1, 45 years old, 9 years after ABA; (B) Patient 2, 26 years old, 2 years after ABA
Patient 1, 45 years old, 9 years after ABA Patient 1, 45 years old, 9 years after ABA Patient 2, 26 years old, 2 years after ABA
Figure 2: Ultrasound structure of the left mammary gland
Patient 2, 26 years old, 2 years after ABA Patient 1, 45 years old, 9 years after ABA
Figure 1: Ultrasound structure of the right mammary gland
Figure 1: Ultrasound structure of the right mammary gland
Patient 2, 26 years old, 2 years after ABA Patient 2, 26 years old, 2 years after ABA
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