After the combo of breast injection and face beautification, the female patient had to intervene ECMO

06/05/2022 14:39 GMT+7

The patient said that on April 23, she went to a cosmetic facility through researching on social networks to inject 3 bottles of filler (filler named Alisa 50ml/vial) into the chest and face area.

A day later, the patient’s condition worsened, the patient had difficulty breathing, so he went to Binh Tan District Hospital for monitoring. Here, the patient with low blood pressure was urgently transferred to Cho Ray Hospital for emergency treatment.

Dr. Dang Quy Duc, Deputy Department of Cardiology at Cho Ray Hospital, said that at the time of admission, the patient was in critical condition with symptoms of shortness of breath, low blood oxygen, low blood pressure, and the heart almost stopped.

After an urgent consultation, the doctors set up a team to intervene with ECMO technology in the night.

Patient photo.

Doctors diagnosed the patient with cardiogenic shock, myocardial damage after filler injection and did not rule out the possibility that this injury was caused by injecting filler Alisa with lidocaine. The patient also had liver damage and acute kidney injury.

In addition to placing ECMO, the patient also had to undergo supportive hemodialysis. By day 8, the patient was stable, ECMO was withdrawn, dialysis stopped, liver, kidney and heart function almost completely recovered.

According to Dr. CK1 Tran Huu Chinh – Cardiology Department of Cho Ray Hospital: “This is a very serious cosmetic accident.

Dr. Chinh said cosmetic complications also occurred a lot and most cases of severe complications were fatal. It can be said that this is one of the rare cases of being saved after having severe complications.

The whole team is very happy because we have put so much effort together to bring the patient back to life, back to his family.

Returning from the death door after the beauty combo, Ms. P. said that when she went to the emergency room, she thought she would not survive. This is an expensive lesson for beautification at underground beauty salons, advertising in the sky.

According to GS-TS-BS Do Quang Hung, former Head of Plastic Surgery Department of Cho Ray Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, almost every day he receives cosmetic errors at spas to overcome the consequences.

Assoc. Prof. Hung said that now it is a very alarming fact that spas only have a simple skin care function but still receive filler injections, rhinoplasty, and eye cuts.

The above procedures must be performed in a plastic surgery specialist clinic, must ensure technical and aseptic conditions licensed by the Ministry of Health, but currently anyone can become a “doctor”. cosmetologist”.

In addition, the person performing these procedures must be a physician, licensed, and technically trained.

Assoc. Prof. Hung warned that if people love to beautify without knowledge, handing themselves over to spas and beauty parlors underground, if they do not meet the conditions, they will lose money and even endanger their lives.

Customers suffering from accidents are often shy and do not want to report where they have done it, and in the end, the person who suffers the heaviest consequences is still the customer.

K.Chi