BACKGROUND "Postbariatric" patients are at significant risk for increased postoperative complications. This study aimed to define the risk of venous thromboembolism following body-contouring surgery after massive weight loss. METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed on all patients who had undergone all forms of body-contouring procedures after massive weight loss between January 2005 a...

For getting good sleep quality, an improved approach of new mattress development based on the pressure sensors for body-contouring uniform support is proposed in this paper. This method solved the problems of innerspring mattresses that cannot allow body-contouring uniform support, and foam mattresses that cannot provide everybody equal comfort from the same mattress. By the buried pressure sen...

BACKGROUND Patient expectations are important in bariatric and body contouring surgery because the goals include improvements in health-related quality of life, appearance, and body image. The aim of this study was to identify patient expectations along the weight loss journey and/or body contouring surgery. METHODS This qualitative study took an interpretive description approach. Between Sep...

Even with the evolution of primary surgical techniques in body contouring, wound closure remains primarily traditional and has not advanced beyond the techniques followed in past decades. Streamlining wound closure would be the next advance for body contouring surgery. Absorbable barbed sutures offer a potential solution, and they are the subject of this review investigating the applications of...

INTRODUCTION: Deoxycholic acid currently approved only for minimally invasive treatment of submental fat. The effects of deoxycholic acid on fat need not be limited to submental fat and represents an opportunity to treat undesired fat in many other body parts.1 Injection lipolysis has the potential risks of skin loss/necrosis, hyperpigmentation, neovascular response, and contour irregularities....