Use of a tourniquet with and without adrenaline reduces blood loss during liposuction for lymphoedema of the arm.
Wojnikow, Slawomir ; Malm, Johan LU and Brorson, Håkan LU
(2007)
In Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery
41(5).
p.243-249
- Abstract
- Sixty-two patients with lymphoedema of the arm after mastectomy and with hypertrophy of the adipose tissue were consecutively treated by liposuction in three different ways. The first group was operated on without the use of a tourniquet. In the second group, liposuction extended up to the distal edge of the tourniquet, and then into the proximal upper arm previously covered by the tourniquet using the 'dry' technique. Treatment of the third group was identical to that of the second one, but the area covered by the tourniquet was treated by the tumescent technique. Eighteen patients who did not have lymphoedema either treated or not treated with adrenaline served as a reference group to see how blood transfusions varied with various... (More)
- Sixty-two patients with lymphoedema of the arm after mastectomy and with hypertrophy of the adipose tissue were consecutively treated by liposuction in three different ways. The first group was operated on without the use of a tourniquet. In the second group, liposuction extended up to the distal edge of the tourniquet, and then into the proximal upper arm previously covered by the tourniquet using the 'dry' technique. Treatment of the third group was identical to that of the second one, but the area covered by the tourniquet was treated by the tumescent technique. Eighteen patients who did not have lymphoedema either treated or not treated with adrenaline served as a reference group to see how blood transfusions varied with various volumes of aspirate. Using a tourniquet significantly reduced blood loss and the number of transfusions, which was further reduced by tumescence. In the historical reference group, the number of blood transfusions increased as the volume of aspirate increased, and further if no adrenaline was added. (Less)
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- author
- Wojnikow, Slawomir
; Malm, Johan
LU
and Brorson, Håkan
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2007
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- lymphoedema, blood transfusion, liposuction, tourniquet, breast cancer, tumescence, blood loss, Lymphedema
- in
- Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery
- volume
- 41
- issue
- 5
- pages
- 243 - 249
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
-
- wos:000250808400004
- pmid:17886128
- scopus:35648983558
- ISSN
- 1651-2073
- DOI
- 10.1080/02844310701546920
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Department of Translational Medicine (013017500), Emergency medicine/Medicine/Surgery (013240200), Surgery Research Unit (013242220), Clinical Chemistry, Malmö (013016000)
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- e4fb5086-1021-4e73-83eb-3a43dfe78c8d (old id 839021)
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- 2016-04-01 15:55:17
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