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Our patient today has PIPs. She has got quite well-healed, short scars. I'm going
to remove them. But our main priority is to replace them with similar size and reduce
the rippling, which is the implant palpability that you see through the skin in this area
shown there. So I've just opened up the capsule on this side, and can you see this fluid coming
out? That fluid indicates that the implant on this side is likely to be ruptured. Can
you see this creamy fluid? We don't know how ruptured it is yet. But if you see the, just
sucking here, all around the implant. I can see the implant is ruptured there. Can you
see there? That's the edge of the implant there that's ruptured. So I'm just going to
remove everything I can, and then I'll show you the implant in a second. Well, the implant
here, can you see? It is completely ruptured. That bit is turned inside each other. You
can see the outline of what the implant used to look like. But we've got a massive, catastrophic
rupture really of the whole of the implant there is ruptured. And again, very, very unusual
to have such a bad rupture with an implant. So I just thought I'd show the implants on
both sides. This is the right side, as we can see very ruptured and completely disintegrated
really, with only a very small bridge of tissue separating the bits of the implant. They completely
come apart, and that is very, very unusual for an implant to rupture as much as that.
We see it a lot with PIP implants, but not with other implants. And on the left, pretty
much more of a normal appearance, with an intact implant without the ripping. But you
can see, as soon as you get a little break in the PIP implant, which starts with a little
fold, then extends through the whole implant and then it turns yellow because that inside
material mixes with the body fluids to make this sort of yellow appearance. So again,
there are lots and lots of videos with ruptured PIPs implants. They're all slightly different.
If you'd like to see what they look like, please have a visit to our website where you'll
find lots of information about PIP implants. Our patient today has PIPs Robin Normal.dot
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