ReviewAesthetic plastic surgery2022
Breast Implant Illness (BII): Real Syndrome or a Social Media Phenomenon? A Narrative Review of the Literature.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effect of Orthodontic Combined with Implant Repair on Aesthetic Effect and Gingival Crevicular Fluid Factor in Patients with Dentition Defect and Periodontitis.BioMed research international · 2022Trial
- From Hashtags to Health Narratives: A Content Analysis of Breast Implant Illness on TikTok.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2025Article
- Breast implant illness after reconstruction with silicone breast implants.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2025Article
- Beyond the Posts: Analyzing Breast Implant Illness Discourse With Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning.Aesthetic surgery journal · 2025Article
- Extracting big data from the internet to support the development of a new patient-reported outcome measure for breast implant illness: a proof of concept study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Contextualizing the Impact of Pop Culture on Breast Implant Illness and its Medical Relevance.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2024Article
- Results of a patient survey using an online questionnaire after implant removal for breast implant illness.GMS Interdisciplinary plastic and reconstructive surgery DGPW · 2024Article
- Longevity of Post-Explantation Systemic Symptom Improvement and Potential Etiologies: Findings From the ASERF Systemic Symptoms in Women-Biospecimen Analysis Study: Part 4.Aesthetic surgery journal · 2023Article
- One-step Glandular Reconstruction after Breast Implant Removal: Technical Refinements and Grafting of the Inferior Dermoglandular Flap.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2023Article
- Imaging Features Following Breast Explant Surgery: A Pictorial Essay.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Breast silicone implants' pericapsular impairment: current underdiagnosed status.Frontiers in surgery · 2023Review
- Current Challenges in Breast Implantation.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Breast implant illness (BII) is a condition characterized by elusive diagnostic criteria and self-reported diverse disabling and distressing physical and psychological symptoms. With currently significant increase in public awareness, BII is perhaps becoming the most controversial subject in aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery, generating heated debates between those who do not believe such a condition exists and those who demand its acceptance as a recognized diagnosis. Silicone incompatibility has been associated with "autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants" (ASIA syndrome) or Shoenfeld's syndrome. It is still unclear, however, whether BII symptoms would have occurred if no implants had been placed in the first place. The purpose of this literature review is to analyze critically the current state of scientific evidence related to this condition. Though the psychosomatic theory is most likely, the mechanism of BII symptoms is probably multifactorial. At present, BII being an underlying connective tissue disorder cannot be confirmed; moreover, whether improved aesthetic outcome and patient's overall satisfaction with the profile of their reconstructed or augmented breasts translate into decreased self-reported BII symptoms is still not well elucidated. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE III: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
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