NPWT Reduction Mammaplasty

Exclusion Criteria

• •Younger than 18 years of age
• •Biologically male patients
• •Scheduled to undergo unilateral breast mammaplasty
• •Currently pregnant or lactating
• •Use of steroids or other immune modulators known to affect wound healing
• •Current smokers who have not paused for a minimum of 4 weeks prior to surgery
• •History of breast cancer
• •History of oncologic or reconstructive breast surgery
• •History of radiation to the breast
• •History of chemotherapy or hormone therapy
• •Tattoos in the area of skin incision
• •Skin conditions known to affect wound healing or scarring of the breast (e.g., cutis laxa)
• •Significant history of scar problems (e.g., hypertrophic scarring or keloids) post-surgical incisions with active bleeding
• •Exposure of blood vessels, organs, bone, or tendon at the base of the reference wound
• •Known allergies to product components (e.g., medical or NPWT tape)
• •Unable to comply with NPWT requirements, including those unable to present for postoperative follow-up
• •Lactating at the time of surgery
• •Require deviation from standard operative or closure techniques (e.g., staples, free nipple grafts)
• •Considered part of a vulnerable population (adults unable to consent, infants, children, teenagers, pregnant women, prisoners)
• •Experience intraoperative complications due to surgical complications not related to the NPWT instrumentation (e.g., expanding hematoma)