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As media report, Kendal Ascher passed away in February. <New York Post> posted the cause of death has now been determined by New York City Chief Medical Examiner. A pulmonary embolism, leading to acute respiratory failure, occurred after cosmetic filler injections.
After filler injection cause pulmonary embolism, leading to acute respiratory failure. The examiner ruled his death an “accident.”
Similar accident not usually happen on professional medical beauty.
What is ” beauty filler injection cause pulmonary embolism? If we want to do anti-wrinkle treatment, the therapy of injection is using high molecular weight hyaluronic acid inject to wrinkle indentation,making wrinkle disappear.
Usually injection material including hyaluronic acid, Silicone (breast augmentation), polylactic acid, hydroxyapatite+, autologous fat, etc.
Once those material comming into blood veins john in blood circulation, then comming into lung will cause pulmonary embolism.
The early symptoms of pulmonary embolism not easy to found. No only chest pain and shortness of breath. The symptoms of small branch embolism can easily be confused with postoperative weakness or a cold, thus delaying treatment.
Does all hyaluronic acid injection all risky?
General injection including filler and small molecule hyaluronic acid injection. Filler injection require more professional doctor to operate because higher risk. The filler material comming into deeper skin layer. small molecule hyaluronic acid usually using multi needle mesotherapy gun to do injection. These machine working with vacuum suction to lift skin during injection. The max needle length only 2.0mm. Mostly using 1.0-1.2mm needle lenght. It could avoid risky to hurt blood vessel or other skin tissue. In another word, small molecule hyaluronic acid do not comming into blood vessel. On the other hand, hyaluronic acid is one of human body stuff, small acid do not cuase pulmonary embolism cause the small molecular weight.
But vacuum mesotherapy gun injection usually sovle skin hydrating, skin lighting and pigment problem.
Dermal filler use to solve wrinkle problem. It is filling, not treating. So it mostly use single needle to do injection.
Safety is the first thing to considerate during beauty treatment. The fibidden area CAN NOT DO INJECTION. If without very strict requirement and do worried about the risky. Needless mesotherapy gun also good choice. specialicon.com provide more similar hyaluronic acid delivery method such as nano crystal mesotherapy gun, dermal roller, RF microneedling etc.