Lower Eyelid Complication After Blepharoplasty and COVID-19 Vaccination.

BACKGROUND: Following COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign, new- and unknown-related reactions have emerged. CASE REPORT: Four months after transcutaneous lower blepharoplasty and few days after the second dose of SARS-CoV-2 Pfizer mRNA vaccination, a 57-year-old man developed a bilateral palpebral ecchymosis. While the lesion healed spontaneously on the left side, the ecchymosis on the right lower lid did not regress. It presented swelling and hard consistency, clinically involving only skin layer. No alterations were revealed upon blood tests and instrumental evaluations. Histological examination showed lymphovascular hyperplasia on a probable reactive basis. The lesion was resistant to medical and surgical therapies. After 15 months, it regressed spontaneously. CONCLUSIONS: In the reported case, an evident chronological relationship exists between surgical site and vaccine reaction, while other etiopathogenetic factors were excluded. This case represents a previously undescribed condition linking postvaccination reaction and long-term surgical outcome. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE V: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .

Total Breast Reconstruction With Fat Grafting After Internal Expansion and Expander Removal.

INTRODUCTION: The development of fat grafting techniques both in cosmetic and reconstructive breast surgery has highlighted the need to recreate a breast mound using similar tissues and without visible scarring. Our technique combines skin expansion by conventional expanders and breast volume replacement by serial fat grafting and final expander removal. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fat grafting had been performed both by Coleman technique and Bodyjet system. We report a series of 12 cases enrolled between 2008 and 2013. Each case has been presented in this article, focusing on received treatment, observed complications, and results. RESULTS: Satisfactory results were observed 6 months after the last session in most of the concluded reconstructions with a low complication rate.