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Abstract
Reducing the incidence of complications is an important focus for all surgical procedures. This is especially the case with cosmetic procedures, where relatively healthy and functionally normal patients undergo elective surgery to improve their appearance. Abdominoplasty is a common aesthetic procedure with a wide appeal; however, it has higher complication rates than other aesthetic procedure.
The aim of this study was to reduce the overall complication rate in cases of abdominoplasty through applying certain precautions and techniques and evaluate their effect in reducing post-operative complications.
Mean age of our study population is around 42 years, with a range from 30-55 years. No extremes of age were included in our study, most of our cases were females, with only 23% of them were males.
The weight of our study population ranged from 80-120 Kg, with a mean of 96 Kg and a standard deviation of 10 Kg, this means that all of our cases were obese or even morbidly obese.
Hypertension was found in 20% of our cases, and diabetes in 10% of them, as a result of female predominance in our study group, smoking was seen positive in only 20% of cases, and only one case had a past history of mastopexy operation one year ago.
Regard intraoperative data, all cases had general anaesthesia, regarding the early postoperative complications, seroma was the most frequent complication, seen in up to 40% of cases, this was followed by umbilical infection (17%), and lastly asymmetry and bruises (7% for each of them). Late postoperative complications in our study group included scar problem and umbilical stenosis. Scar problem were seen in 37% of our study population (11 cases) and were elevated scars in 4 cases of them (13.3%). Umbilical stenosis was seen in one sixth of our cases (5 cases)