Hector Alvarez-Trejo, Juan Manuel Baltazar-Cervantes, Emmanuel Dorado-Hernandez, Karla Elizabeth Jimenez-Pavon, Ruben Cuevas-Gutierrez, Enrique Romero-Algara, Francisco Antonio Rodriguez-Garcia and Quitzia Libertad Torres-Salazar
Background: Mastopexies continue to be among the top five surgeries offered by plastic and cosmetic surgery. Mastopexy aims to reposition the Nipple-Areola Complex (NAC) that has descended due to a decrease in the elastic capacity of the tissues and to remodel the remaining breast, by restructuring the glandular tissue and drying the secondary skin surplus. Liacyr Ribeiro's technique has shown satisfactory results, as well as an appropriate versatility for being combined with other techniques. This study aimed to analyze the effectiveness, and aesthetic results of mastopexy using Ribeiro’s technique.
Materials & Methods: A retrospective cohort of 800 patients who underwent Ribeiro’s mastopexy from January 2012 to December 2020 was analyzed.
Results: The patients had different degrees of breast ptosis. The procedure was performed under a peridural block, using the technique described by Liacyr Ribeiro. The patients were monitored for three months, three years, and five years after surgery. During this period, only 5% of the patients presented complications, being C-suture dehiscence the most frequent of all, and only 0.4% developed NAC necrosis. The level of satisfaction among patients was 95%, and none of the complications were related to patients’ history.
Conclusion: We can conclude that the technique described by Liacyr Ribeiro is a surgical procedure with good aesthetic efficacy, which has demonstrated an acceptable percentage of satisfaction in patients who have undergone this technique. The frequency of complications was low, and most of them were generally minor.