Acellular dermal matrix complications

mtilkens

First time posting, I am a 46 year old woman. I had a double mastectomy on Oct 18th with tissue expanders placed at surgery time. I had reconstruction January 4th. Less than a month later my left breast became very hard and was visibly higher. I had emergency surgery to rule out infection etc. It was found that the acellular matrix had just fallen apart. has anyone ever experienced anything like this. My doctor seems baffled and am feeling quite stressed and sad. I had to have my left implant removed and a smaller one put in because of the amount of tissue they had to remove . My doctor said to wait at least year before attempting to correct the siza issue.

Moderators

Dear mtilkens,

We are so sorry that you are dealing with these issues but glad that you reached out to our members. You might try to do a search using the words "acellular dermal matrix" and it will offer you other posts using those words. Be sure to put them in parantheses. You may discover others to whom you can private message. You can also check out this podcast on our main site about Reconstruction Techniques. It might hold additional information. Let us know how else we can be of support.

The Mods