auto-immune and plastic surgery

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There is no correlation that has been demonstrated between plastic surgery (or any surgery) and defined rheumatologic disease or indiviudal rheumatologic symptoms. this has been reported from a number of large international studies, particularly in the context of breast implants (for which such a link to AI disease was originally made)
 
droliver said:
There is no correlation that has been demonstrated between plastic surgery (or any surgery) and defined rheumatologic disease or indiviudal rheumatologic symptoms. this has been reported from a number of large international studies, particularly in the context of breast implants (for which such a link to AI disease was originally made)
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well not rheumatologic disease or symptoms but rather the immune system rejecting the new skin or tissue.

This has happened. How can you say it hasn't?
 
"This has happened. How can you say it hasn't?"

Did you just answer your own vague question or are you asking something different?
 
Any allo or xenograft can undergo rejection. Synthetic materials can migrate, erode, encapsulate, get infected etc. This is loosely termed 'rejection' but is not the same as initiation of a immune response or real 'rejection.'
 
Inflammatory foreign body response/encapsulation/implant extrusion is not "autoimmune." Lupus is autoimmune and I've never read anything suggesting that any PRS procedure predisposes patients to lupus or temporal arteritis or Addison's/Hashimoto's or any other weird ****.
 
DrDre311 said:
Inflammatory foreign body response/encapsulation/implant extrusion is not "autoimmune." Lupus is autoimmune and I've never read anything suggesting that any PRS procedure predisposes patients to lupus or temporal arteritis or Addison's/Hashimoto's or any other weird ****.
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inflammatory foreign body response...that's the term i was looking for. I stand corrected.

would that be something that could become chronic?

could the immune system attack the new tissue but not at a rate to cause any damage to the kidneys or other organs but rather just the tissue.

take michael jackson for example
 
thats the point it's a local, inflammatory reaction rather than a systemic, autoimmune response
 
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