I recently had a long awaited appointment with my plastic surgeon to discuss tram reconstruction, the surgeon was happy to do the operation but told me that it would be done in two parts, the first part would be a mastectomy and put in tissue expanders and the second operation would be the tummy part. She says that she does this to minimise the risks to the patient .Has anyone ever heard of this? ( my surgery is preventative )
Hi Alizzie
My friend had this done. I did ask my surgeon why and I think (don’t quote me) if I remember rightly, that it can be because 1. The positioning of your blood vessels. 2. The surgery doesn’t have the massive impact that having it done all in one go has. (ie if you have young kids etc). 3. It sounds like you are probably having a pedicled tram: The tissue expanders enable you to just have the one scar straight accross the middle rather than free tram which which is scarred all the way round!
Hope this helps,
Nikki