
Baltimore, Maryland, After the breast implant placement, physical activity should be restricted until the former operation is completely healed. If not, the consequences as experienced by a woman in America that the implant is slid up into the lungs.
When accidents occur, the 59-year-old woman who was not named it is doing Pilates exercises. Gymnastics is pretty heavy for a man his age, because it is a combination of balance with the body movement as if breathing.
The hardest part for this woman seems to be the movement of Valsalva, which exhale as hard with the position of the nose and mouth closed. If drawn, the effort to make this movement more or less similar as people were straining during bowel movements.
So strong effort, these women feel no change in the shape of her body. Breasts that are never removed because of cancer suddenly become flat, and when touched silicone implants that had been worn away somewhere.
"I remember well, the patient was screaming, 'My body is my breasts swallows'" said Dr. Tiffany Fong from the Johns Hopkins Hospital, attending physician at the Emergency Unit that handles this case as quoted by ABC News, Sunday (18/12/2011 ).
Ultrasonic scanning results showed that silicone implants that had been installed in the breast has been entered and trapped between the lung and ribs. Believed the time to push, the implant is driven by the chest muscles to shift from its place.
According to Dr Fong, this accident could have made lung function disturbed and could not breathe. Fortunately, as reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, this woman survived and suffered no serious life-threatening effects.
As with cardiac surgery, breast implant surgery also leave scars which can only be recovered at least in 6 months. During the recovery pasa, sport and physical activity should be reduced so that not too heavy.
Shift of assistive devices such as artificial valves is common in cardiac surgery patients, but is actually extremely rare in breast implant patients. Because it is the doctors are still studying this case, because the less likely that the cause just because just the surgical wound.