Journal archive · Non-surgical and filler rhinoplasty · Complications and management · 2015
Avoiding and Treating Blindness From Fillers: A Review of the World Literature
Beleznay K, Carruthers JD, Humphrey S, Jones D.
In the archive as a landmark paper: the core sweep runs 2011–2026, and this one is here because the history of rhinoplasty rests on it · cited on fat grafting.
From the abstract
“As the popularity of soft tissue fillers increases, so do the reports of adverse events. The most serious complications are vascular in nature and include blindness. Objective: To review the cases of blindness after filler injection, to highlight key aspects of the vascular anatomy, and to discuss prevention and…”
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What the rhinoplasty literature says on this paper's topics, cited line by line to PubMed.
Non-surgical and filler rhinoplasty
Injecting hyaluronic acid into the nose takes fifteen minutes, satisfies almost everyone who has it, lasts eight to fourteen months, and carries one risk that no amount of satisfaction offsets: filler entering an artery, which in 22 published cases took the patient's sight and gave it back to only 27% of them.
Complications and management
Serious complications after rhinoplasty are rare: infection runs under 1% in the two largest single-surgeon series, pooled rib harvests record no pneumothorax, and the bleeding series record no thromboembolism.
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