medicaltreatment:breast implants

Are women more likely to be harmed by medical device failures? - ICIJ
▻https://www.icij.org/blog/2018/12/are-women-more-likely-to-be-harmed-by-medical-device-failures

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The best source for gender-specific data on injuries and deaths linked to medical devices should be the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA collects that information in “adverse event” reports filed by manufacturers, doctors and others when a device has harmed a patient – or has experienced a malfunction that would lead to harm if it were to recur. An ICIJ analysis of this data identified more than 83,000 deaths and 1.7 million injuries linked to medical devices.

Yet the FDA won’t make gender information public. An agency spokeswoman told ICIJ that revealing gender or age would violate patient confidentiality rules and that more broadly, “conclusions can not be drawn” about sex-specific differences in adverse event rates, because the reports themselves often contain unverified and incomplete information.

#sexisme_médical #santé #implants #santé_publique #femmes

Did my faulty breast implants kill my darling daughter ? As experts warn leaking implants may harm babies, we talk to the mothers terrified they have paid a terrible price for their vanity | Mail Online
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2329242/Did-faulty-breast-implants-kill-darling-daughter-As-experts-warn-leakin

des #femmes victimes de rupture de #prothèses #PIP craignent que leurs implants soient responsables de la maladie (#cancer ou autre) de leurs enfants ; il n’y a aucune certitude, mais le Daily Mail en a trouvé plusieurs qui se rongent les sangs

Like every other victim of PIPs, once she’s had the implants removed, Gabriella can only wait and hope that the Government is right, and that her baby, due in six months, is healthy.

It’s hope that Lucy Petagine, tragically, doesn’t have. She will forever be haunted by the thought that her PIP implants could have played some role in her daughter Luna’s death.

voir aussi : PIP Action Campaign
▻http://pipactioncampaign.org

#santé

AFP: Breast implants may delay cancer diagnosis: study
▻http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jDU7n1mfNmybxLtuxcQqdFv3IXZQ

Breast implants may delay cancer diagnosis in women, said a study Wednesday that urged a thorough probe into the potential health risks of this type of cosmetic surgery.
In a review of 12 earlier studies of breast cancer patients, a team of epidemiologists from Canada found that women with implants had a 26 percent higher risk of being diagnosed at a later stage of the disease.
This was possibly because implants cast shadows on mammograms, blocking the view of breast tissue.

#cancer #santé #chirurgie_esthétique

7,000 more women in the UK ’have faulty breast implants’ | Mail Online
►http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2115439/7-000-women-UK-faulty-breast-implants.html

The implants, manufactured by defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese, were filled with industrial-grade silicone gel intended for mattresses and can rupture, exposing the silicone to body tissue.

French authorities previously said only those implants used after 2001 may have included the unauthorised gel.
Plastic surgeon Denis Boucq holds defective PIP implants removed from a patient

But an investigation by the UK medical safety watchdog has discovered that contaminated implants may have been used in Britain since 1997.

Prothèses PIP : Retrait recommandé aux Pays-Bas
Prothèses mammaires défectueuses

Le scandale des prothèses mammaires PIP continuent à bousculer l’Europe. Aux Pays-Bas, les autorités sanitaires ont recommandé le retrait des implants posés en 2001. En Grande-Bretagne, 7.000 nouveaux cas ont été recensés.

►http://www.francesoir.fr/actualite/sante/protheses-pip-retrait-recommande-aux-pays-bas-197265.html

#PIP

New Statesman - Why breast implants don’t work
►http://www.newstatesman.com/scitech/2012/02/cosmetic-surgery-women-breast

We are asking the wrong question about the Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) breast implants. Yes, they rupture, releasing industrial-grade silicone mattress-filler into women’s bodies. But we don’t need new research to know what the medical outcomes will be. The effects of putting silicone into the body have been charted since the 1950s, when the first augmentations started going wrong. The right question to ask is this: why has it been allowed to continue for half a century?

Cosmetic surgery is nothing more than an industrial-scale scientific experiment. The augmentation of women’s breasts began as an application of chemical wizardry, ushered in on the gleaming wings of postwar science. The surgeon’s hypothesis has been that a problem of self-esteem can be fixed using polymers and medical technology. This didn’t always go well - in the 1950s and 1960s, women were given augmentations that sometimes went so wrong that they needed mastectomies. Now, though, the results are in.

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(via @valeria_wants sur Twitter)

#PIP #chirurgie

The Breast Implant Risk | The Scientist
►http://the-scientist.com/2012/01/26/dont-beat-your-breast-implant

il n’y a pas que le scandale #pip : toutes les prothèses mammaires posent des problèmes, pas toujours graves mais…

all breast implants come with risks: within 10 years, up to 30 percent of patients have their implants removed or replaced, according to the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2011 silicone breast implant report. Part of the reason is just standard wear and tear, said Malcolm Roth, American Society of Plastic Surgeons president and chief of plastic surgery at Albany Medical Center. “Patients shouldn’t think of these as lifelong devices.”

via @hervelc
#femmes #santé #cancer

In Venezuela, lining up for removal of #implants - Philly .com
►http://articles.philly.com/2012-02-05/news/31027301_1_breast-implants-silicone-breast-enlargement-surgery

CARACAS, Venezuela - The office of plastic surgeon Ignacio Sousa is so packed that women are lined up outside the door. College students in their 20s, homemakers in their 40s, middle-class office workers: Nearly all are fearful that their #breast implants may be leaking.

Thousands of women worldwide are consulting their doctors about health concerns that have sprung up since December because of faulty silicone breast implants made by the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese, or #PIP. In some cases, the implants filled with industrial-grade silicone have split open, prompting growing demand for their removal.

“It’s like a snowball,” said Sousa, who has been receiving dozens of patients every day since the news broke that French authorities recommended removal of the implants.

The scandal has hit beauty-obsessed Venezuela particularly hard. An estimated 16,000 Venezuelans have the implants, one of the highest figures among Latin American countries, along with much-larger Brazil, where about 20,000 women have PIP-made implants.

#cdp

Brazil - Government Will Pay to Replace Ruptured Implants
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/world/americas/brazil-government-will-pay-to-replace-ruptured-implants.html?_r=1

President Dilma Rousseff has ordered the public health system and health insurance companies to pay for the replacement of ruptured breast implants made in France, even if they were implanted for aesthetic reasons.

« even if » est de trop mais c’est déjà ça
#femmes #sexisme #santé #pip

#Venezuela offers free removal of #PIP breast implants | Reuters
►http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/28/us-venezuela-implants-idUSTRE7BQ18Q20111228

Venezuela is offering women the free removal of breast implants made by a bankrupt French company that used industrial silicone to make cheap prostheses linked to health risks

#santé