Background: Hyaluronic acid (HA) injection in the auricular base is one of the most popular and non-surgical cosmetic procedures for correcting lying ears and optimizing the facial profile because of its minimal invasiveness, immediate effect and safety (Li et al. in Aesthet Surg J 44: 746-75, 2024). But we have recently discovered that this treatment may lead to a new and rare complication called peripheral facial paralysis that has never been reported before.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hyaluronic acid (HA) filler-induced vascular embolism that threatens skin integrity is an urgent situation. There is increasing evidence that percutaneous intra-arterial hyaluronidase injection is an effective therapeutic technique for it. However, until now, there is a lack of a unifying protocol about the technique.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Necrosis of frontotemporal skin and/or the ipsilateral scalp with subsequent alopecia after hyaluronic acid (HA) filler injection into the temple is rare complications with superficial temporal artery embolization are suspected as the major pathological mechanism. The main treatment currently is intralesional hyaluronidase (HAase) injection, but the effectiveness of percutaneous superficial temporal arterial HAase injection still lacks consensus.
Objectives: To investigate the effectiveness of superficial temporal arterial HAase injection in dissolving HA filler-induced necrosis of frontotemporal skin and/or the ipsilateral scalp with subsequent alopecia.
Background: Vascular embolism is a serious complication of hyaluronic acid (HA) filler cosmetic injection, and hyaluronidase injection has been proposed as the treatment. Until now, there has been a lack of adequate clinical evidence regarding the benefits of treatment for HA filler-induced vascular embolism by percutaneous facial or supratrochlear arterial hyaluronidase injection.
Objectives: The authors sough to evaluate the efficacy of percutaneous facial or supratrochlear arterial hyaluronidase injection as a rescue treatment for HA filler-induced vascular embolism.
Background: With an increase in recent years in the number of people receiving cosmetic facial injection treatments of hyaluronic acid, the incidence of hyaluronic acid embolism has also increased commensurately. Hyaluronic acid embolism leads to serious complications, including blindness, eye and eyelid movement disorders, skin necrosis, and cerebral embolism. However, there is a lack of robust clinical evidence regarding the benefits of treatment for hyaluronic acid embolism by intraarterial thrombolysis therapy.
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