Volume 24, Issue 103, May - June, 2020

Maintaining the nipple areola complex sensation in patients undergoing superomedial reduction mammoplasty surgery in Taleghani Hospital, Kermanshah

Gholam Reza Amirian, Mohammad Bagher Heidari^♦

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

^♦Corresponding author
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

ABSTRACT

Introduction: One of the most common operations in plastic surgery is mammoplasty. Intact nipple sensation is one of the important subjects in this surgery. This study tends to evaluate the preservation of nipple areola complex (NAC) in patients undergoing super medial reduction mammoplasty in Taleghani Hospital in Kermanshah. Materials and Methods: This prospective study measured nipple areola complex sensation in 27 patients, who referred to Taleghani Hospital for mammoplasty surgery, 3, 6 and 12 months after the surgery using two point discrimination (2PD) test on nipple based on needle and pinch tests. Data was analyzed by SPSS software version 22. Results: There was a significant increase in 2PDbased on pinch and needle test during 3, 6 and 12 months after super medial reduction mammoplasty (P<0.05). There was a significant increase in 2PD based on pinch and needle test during 3, 6 and 12 months after super medial reduction mammoplasty in terms of age, marital status, history of breastfeeding, BMI, and menstruation (P<0.05). Conclusion: Based on the results, sensation of patients was recovered within one year after the super medial reduction mammoplasty.

Keywords: reduction mammoplasty, super medial, nipple areola complex sensation

Medical Science, 2020, 24(103), 1075-1079

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