Healty | What is a Microsurgery?

Microsurgery is a real intricate, specialized type of plastic surgical physical care for performed using fragile instruments, sutures finer than human pilus together with high powered magnification provided past times either a microscope or high-powered loupes. Microsurgeons tin repair together with reconnect real modest blood vessels together with nerves less than 1mm inward diameter.

Microsurgery has allowed pregnant advances inward many surgical fields. Breast reconstruction has been transformed completely.

We tin forthwith supplant tissue removed past times a mastectomy alongside the patient's ain tissue transplanted from roughly other purpose of their body. Unlike conventional tissue reconstruction techniques (like the TRAM flap), the latest microsurgical techniques ("perforator flaps") carefully save the patient's underlying muscles. The tissue is disconnected from the body, transplanted to the patient's thorax together with reconnected using microsurgery.

Preserving underlying muscles lessens postoperative discomfort making the recovery easier together with shorter. It too helps the patient keep musculus forcefulness long-term which is peculiarly of import for active women.

Below is a video of microsurgery performed during a DIEP flap thorax reconstruction. Here nosotros are connecting the DIEP flap artery to the internal mammary artery inward the thorax nether the microscope:

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Dr C

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Dr Chrysopoulo is a board certified plastic surgeon inward San Antonio, Texas and an active fellow member of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery. He specializes inward DIEP flap thorax reconstruction together with other state-of-the-art thorax reconstruction procedures. He is in-network for close USA insurance plans. Patients are welcomed from across together with exterior the US. Please telephone telephone (800) 692-5565 or electronic mail patientadvocate@PRMAplasticsurgery.com to schedule a consultation.

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