The treatment and prognosis of one case hyaluronic acid augmentation with submental vascular embolization

VernacularTitle: 一例下颏透明质酸注射血管栓塞的处理
Author: Yueling TANG ¹ ; Wei LU ; Hui CHEN
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1. Xi′an Goose Pagoda Beauty Hospital, Xi′an 710000, China
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Hyaluronic acid; Blood vessel, embolism; Dissolving enzyme
From: Chinese Journal of Plastic Surgery 2019;35(7):641-643
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: In June 2018, the hyaluronic acid chin augmentation was performed on a 24-year-old female patient in Xi′an Goose Pagoda Beauty Hospital. After surgery, the patient′s left half of the tongue became pale and turned to dark purple thereafter. The patient had pain and discomfort in tongue, accompanying with pharyngeal swallowing difficulty. It was speculated that the refluxed hyaluronic acid from submental artery to the left lingual artery. Hyaluronidase was immediately injected. The thrombolytic, vasodilatory, and prophylactic antibiotic treatment were assisted. After 8 days, the pain of tongue was significantly improved, and the color returned to normal.