What Researchers Did
Doctors describe one woman's treatment after a permanent facial filler injection cut off blood flow to her skin.
What They Found
This case report describes a 51-year-old woman who developed dusky discoloration and skin changes in her nasolabial fold hours after receiving a permanent dermal filler made of polymethylmethacrylate microspheres, signs of a blocked artery. She was first treated with warm compresses and topical nitroglycerin, then referred for hyperbaric oxygen therapy. After six hyperbaric treatments, her skin discoloration improved significantly. The report does not provide numerical measurements of the improvement.
Canadian Relevance
No direct Canadian connection identified.
Study Limitations
This is a single case report with no control group, so it cannot show that hyperbaric oxygen therapy, rather than the other treatments given, caused the improvement, and the findings cannot be generalized to other patients.