Healty | Reconstructing Breasts amongst Sensation

Most women facing mastectomy as well as thorax reconstruction desire to know what form of feeling their novel breast(s) volition have.

Unfortunately mastectomy leaves many women alongside rattling trivial feeling long term (if any), regardless of whether they convey thorax reconstruction or not.

There is or as well as then adept intelligence though.... Most women undergoing DIEP or SIEA flap thorax reconstruction are too candidates for reconstruction of the sensory nerves inwards the breasts that render feeling. The feeling inwards the novel thorax won't live every bit adept every bit what Mother Nature provided but it's for sure a lot ameliorate than the alternative. H5N1 overnice bonus at the rattling least.

Once the tum tissue (flap) is moved upward to the breast, a sensory nervus inwards the flap is connected microsurgically to a thorax nervus inwards the thorax that was cutting past times the mastectomy. New nervus cells grow from the thorax nervus into the flap nervus over fourth dimension allowing the reconstructed thorax to prepare feeling.

If you're feeling brave, here's a curt video clip of how the 2 nerves are connected. You tin too run across the pulse inwards the blood vessel connections to the novel breast:

I promise this information helps.

Dr C

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