Safety and Ethics in Gluteal Augmentation via Autologous Fat Grafting

摘要

Fat embolism secondary to fat grafting to the buttocks has become inordinately ubiquitous considering the outcome is fatal, albeit not universally.1'2 The estimated prevalence of mortality with this procedure may be as high as 1:3000/ thereby approaching within a 10-fold incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE), in well-selected patients. This risk thus demands consideration of whether the procedure should