Lipotomy

Lipotomy is a lipodissolution technique of human aesthetic medicine which aims at dissolving undesirable greasy clusters without the use of techniques or surgical acts.

The desire to destroy the undesirable fat cells without proceeding to large incisions on the human body goes up in the beginning of the Nineties (Dr Zocchi, Italy; Dr Palmieri, Italy, Dr. Hoefflin, USA). The idea of lipodissolution had been born.

Towards the end of the Nineties, Dr. Bernstein (Paris) was the first to carry out clinical trials and to try to codify the technique. He deposited the "Lipotomie" term. Others followed (Dr. Haddad - Paris), trying to bring each one their contribution, for example by using lecithin of soya injections, but without however obtaining convincing results. Several meetings remained necessary and the results were inconstant from the quality point of view. The fatty cells can indeed easily present unpleasant and unaesthetic scars called lipo-dystrophies.

The first to have standardized and to optimize the results, on great scale, was Dr. Pirmez with his team,, in 2002. On the basis of work of Pr Peter Agre (1992), of Johns Hopkins University, on aquaporin - work rewarded by one Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2003 - Dr. Pirmez developed a formulation of infiltration liquid of combining effectiveness and inocuity. The basic concept took again the action of the osmolarity, potentiated by the use of facilitator agent.

For the first time the technique was codified and duly recorded near the European medical authorities (EC label). With his collaborator, Dr. Durand, they have at the present time a series of more than 800 clinical cases, showing a completely convincing rate of satisfaction.

Bibliography:

Zocchi M., Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Ultrasonic Liposculpturing, 1992, 16: 287-298 Palmieri B. et al., Minerva Chirurgica, Medium liquido ultrasonor per lipoemulsificazione, 49(3),199-201 Hoefflin S, Perspectives in Plastic Surgery, Hypotonic Pharmacological Lipo-dissolution (HPL), 1999, 13(2): 85-98

Lipodissolution