Complications of Liposuction

Liposuction, a surgical intervention designed to treat superficial and deep deposits of subcutaneous fat distributed in aesthetically unpleasing proportions, has proven to be a successful method of improving body contour. Liposuction is so successful, in fact, that it is commonly performed in the office-based surgery setting. Liposuction is one of the most common surgical interventions carried out by physicians around the world and within the top five surgical procedures in the United States. [1] The procedure is of moderate complexity with a death rate of 1/5000 over all. [2] It is performed by multiple specialties within the aesthetic arena, expanding the possibilities for adverse outcomes.