Human adjuvant disease: remission of silicone induced autoimmune disease after explanation of breast augmentation.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Autoimmune diseases following silicone or paraffin implantation are rarely encountered complications of plastic surgery. A 42 year old woman is presented who developed clinical and immunological features of systemic lupus erythematosus 11 years after silicone augmentation. After explanation antinuclear antibody titres decreased from 1/1280 to 1/160, C4 complement fraction and the previously raised angiotensin converting enzyme normalised in step with clinical improvement. It is important that plastic surgeons and rheumatologists should be aware of this possible association.
Medical subject headings
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Breast
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic
- Prostheses and Implants
- Silicones