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Silicone gel breast implant failure: evaluation of properties of shells and gels for explanted prostheses and meta-analysis of literature rupture data.

Abstract：

:After 30 years of clinical use, the 1992 Food and Drug Administration moratorium on silicone gel breast implants (SGBIs) resulted from a paucity of scientific data concerning their safety. The frequency of rupture and reoperative procedures was not known, nor were reliable data available for changes in the physical properties of shells and the composition of gels that might lead to SGBI failure. For this reason the authors conducted large-cohort meta-analyses of failure data for SGBIs based on numerous literature reports and also investigated systematically shell and gel properties from explanted SGBIs. They report their failure analysis data for more than 9,770 SGBIs (an update of an earlier study of more than 8,000 implants) as well an examination of the properties of shells and gels for 74 explanted SGBIs that ranged in age from 2 to 19 years (mean implanted age, 9.9 years). The explants tested were from several different manufacturers. For the modest-size explant cohort that was tested, 31 of 74 implants (42%) were found to be ruptured (some extensively). Even many intact shells were so weakened that only 51 shells had sufficient strength to enable preparation of samples for testing of mechanical properties and for analysis of composition by solvent extraction. Shells were found to contain 15 to 25% of extractable silicone. Exhaustive extraction of gels showed that they actually contained very little crosslinked silicone--85 to 95% being extractable soluble silicone fluid. Tensile and tear strengths of explanted silicone elastomer shells were lower than unimplanted prostheses and were generally well below reported manufacturers' values. This updated large-cohort failure analysis continues to show that shell rupture is related directly to implant duration (e.g., from analysis of variance statistics, 26% failure at 3.9 years, 47% at 10.3 years, 69% at 17.8 years; < or = 0.001). However, for the relatively small series of explants for which physical property data are reported, no significant correlation was observed between implant duration and the degradation of implant strength. It therefore appears most reasonable to conclude that after early weakening of shells as a result of swelling of the shell elastomer by diffusion of silicone oil from the gel, SGBI failure can occur in a time-dependent manner as a result of continuing implant motion and cyclic stresses that are exacerbated by stress concentration at thin areas, defects, and folds in the shells.

journal_name

Ann Plast Surg

journal_title

Annals of plastic surgery

authors

Marotta JS,Goldberg EP,Habal MB,Amery DP,Martin PJ,Urbaniak DJ,Widenhouse CW

doi

10.1097/00000637-200209000-00001

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-09-01 00:00:00

pages

227-42; discussion 242-7

issue

eissn

0148-7043

issn

1536-3708

pii

00000637-200209000-00001

journal_volume

pub_type

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Silicone gel breast implant failure: evaluation of properties of shells and gels for explanted prostheses and meta-analysis of literature rupture data.