Cerebral infarction following facial autologous fat transplantation: report of two cases / 中华神经科杂志

ABSTRACT

Facial autologous fat transplantation is a common aesthetic procedure.Although this procedure is generally regarded as safe,several patients have experienced acute cerebral infarction after fat particles were incorrectly injected into the blood vessel.We report two cases of cerebral infarction following facial autologous fat transplantationone patient suffered massive cerebral infarction due to the occlusion of internal carotid artery by fat embolus and died of stroke related complication,the other young women experienced acute ischemic stroke and ophthalmic artery embolism during this procedure and remained permanent blindness of right eye.Therefore,when a patient presents abrupt mental change,hemiplegia,blindness during autologous fat particle injection,doctors must consider the complication of cerebral infarction.