Successful Prepectoral Breast Reconstruction in a Patient With Systemic Sclerosis.
2021
Patients with connective tissue diseases have been shown to be at higher risk for complications after surgery. In this report, we describe a case of a patient with long-standing, stable systemic sclerosis (SS), diagnosed approximately 28 years ago, who underwent nipple-sparing mastectomy and immediate reconstruction with prepectoral tissue-expander placement. She subsequently had uneventful implant-based reconstruction with adjunctive fat grafting. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of implant-based prepectoral reconstruction after mastectomy in a patient with SS.
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