After injecting fillers for 25 million VND in a hotel, the girl in Ho Chi Minh City was hospitalized with swollen and painful breasts. A few days later, the abscess on the chest ruptured on its own, oozing pus and the filler out.
The patient is a 26-year-old girl, living in Binh Tan district, HCMC. According to the story, about 3 weeks ago, the girl saw a Facebook account in Hanoi advertising an attractive filler injection service to increase breast size. After contacting, the two parties agree on the price and time. After that, the staff in Hanoi went to Ho Chi Minh City to rent a hotel to inject fillers for the girl and a few other guests.
The patient said that he was injected with 350cc of solution for 25 million VND into his chest. After the injection, both breasts are red and painful. Contacted the person in Hanoi, who said it was a normal sign after the injection.
About 1 week before admission, the right breast of the girl was swollen, swollen, red, and painful. The patient continued to contact and was instructed by the injector to take some drugs, use warm water to roll the chest, but the situation got worse.
The girl went to the Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital for examination in a state of swollen, red, and pus-filled breasts. Master, Doctor Le Thao Hien, Department of Skin Aesthetics examined and noted that the patient's right chest area was edematous, erythematous, had a large abscess, and was painful. The left chest area also has a similar size block. The ultrasound results showed the image of the filler scattered in the soft tissue, with a large abscess.
The patient was assigned to the hospital. After a few days, the abscess ruptured on its own, oozing pus and filler. The patient was treated with antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs. Doctors consulted and decided to operate on the patient to drain the pus.
The process of scraping and washing goes smoothly. The plastic surgery unit doctors took out a lot of pus and filler, then changed the dressing, and cleaned the wound daily.
According to Associate Professor, Doctor, Doctor Pham Hieu Liem, Head of Plastic Surgery Unit, Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital, because the filler has dissolved with tissue, the team has to process it many times. . The patient's chest will have bad scars, deformed breast shape, and the risk of new abscesses. In addition, the left chest is also at risk of infection and abscess formation.
Dr. Le Thao Hien, Department of Skin Aesthetics, Ho Chi Minh City Hospital of Dermatology, said that injecting fillers to increase the size of the chest area has many potential risks for patients.
In particular, the patient may have an embolism due to compression of the blood vessel because of too much injection, causing acute ischemia leading to necrosis of the chest area; embolism due to injection of fillers into the blood vessels, causing necrosis of the chest or pulmonary and cardiac embolism leading to death; chest abscess; inflammatory granulomas caused by the body's allergic reaction to a foreign object (filler); fibrotic scars; skin pigmentation disorder, lumps under the skin due to too shallow injection
