Clinical application of VASER-assisted lipoplasty: A pilot clinical study

Abstract

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Personal Experience with Ultrasound-Assisted Lipoplasty: A Pilot Study Comparing Ultrasound-Assisted Lipoplasty with Traditional Lipoplasty

“…For comparative purposes, this report includes a statistical summary of complications reported in published works using first-and second-generation devices. 14 By June of 2003, when this follow-up article was submitted, our collective experience had extended to more than 400 patients, reconfirming the safety and efficacy of the Vaser device.…”

The Effects of Nonfocused External Ultrasound on Tissue Temperature and Adipocyte Morphology

“…This device was capable of rapidly emulsifying fat while delivering significantly less ultrasound energy to the tissues and was associated with less blood loss 6,7 as well as a decrease in the complication rates for UAL procedures. 8,9 Despite these advances in the safety and efficacy of the third-generation devices, in 2011, plastic surgeons reported that only 20% of the liposuction procedures in the previous year were ultrasound assisted. 10 This percentage has remained relatively unchanged over the Abstract Background: Nonfocused externally applied ultrasound energy has been used extensively in the clinical setting for noninvasive body contouring on the premise that ultrasonic diathermy may have a reducing effect on adipose tissue.…”

Liposuction devices: technology update

“…Additionally, Fodor and Watson38 directly compared UAL with SAL and supported UAL’s superiority in sculpting fibrotic areas when compared with SAL. Finally, contemporary, third-generation UAL devices such as VASER™ (Solta Medical, Hayward, CA, USA) (Figure 1), allow for greater fragmentation of adipocytes at a lower energy setting, using pulsed rather than continuous energy 9…”