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Breast reconstruction can reduce psychologic distress without interfering with adjuvant treatment. The study was conducted to determine how ptosis affects satisfaction after immediate partial breast reconstruction with local flaps and symmetrization of the contralateral breast. Twenty patients, with estimated breast volume between 300 and 600 mL and tumor size until T2 by TNM classification, were included in a retrospective cohort study based on a prospective database. The breast was reconstructed using local flaps based on the perforating vessels of the intercostal and pectoralis major muscles. The donor site was located at the intersection of the lower quadrants of the breast. Contralateral mammaplasty using the vertical technique was used to maintain balanced breast volume and shape. A satisfaction score on a scale of 0 to 10 was used, and its correlation with the degree of breast ptosis (1-3) was evaluated. Despite good overall satisfaction scores, significant differences between the ptosis groups 1 (<1 cm) and 3 (>3 cm) were observed (P = 0.010). Breast reconstruction using local flaps plus contralateral mammaplasty performed at the time of surgical resection produced satisfaction scores considered good (8/10). This combined technique seems to be of greatest benefit when the degree of breast ptosis is marked.
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PMID:How does ptosis affect satisfaction after immediate reconstruction plus contralateral mammaplasty? 2066 Nov 28

The prolapse of one or several pelvic organs is a condition that has been known by medicine since its early days, and different therapeutic approaches have been proposed and accepted. But one of the main problems concerning the prolapse of pelvic organs is the need for a universal, clear and reliable staging method.Because the prolapse has been known and recognized as a disease for more than one hundred years, so are different systems proposed for its staging. But none has proved itself to respond to all the requirements of the medical community, so the vast majority were seen coming and going, failing to become the single most useful system for staging in pelvic organ prolapse (POP).The latest addition to the group of staging systems is the POP-Q system, which is becoming increasingly popular with specialists all over the world, because, although is not very simple as a concept, it helps defining the features of a prolapse at a level of completeness not reached by any other system to date. In this vision, the POP-Q system may reach the importance and recognition of the TNM system use in oncology.This paper briefly describes the POP-Q system, by comparison with other staging systems, analyzing its main features and the concept behind it.
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PMID:Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification System (POP-Q) - a new era in pelvic prolapse staging. 2150 77