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pregnancy after tram flap
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pregnancy after tram flap
by b.c.survivor, Jul 18, 2001 12:00AM
Please provide me with any information/articles/web sites on successful pregnancies after a tram flap. I'd like to know what the success rate vs failure rate on pregnancies after this precedure. Thank you.
Doctor's Answer
by CCF-RN,MSN-JS, Jul 19, 2001 12:00AM
Dear B.C. Survivor, I have not been able to find any articles or web sites that speak specifically to pregnancies after TRAM flap reconstruction. However, we just had a similar question on the forum and I checked with the some of our breast center doctors and nurses. While there has been some documentation of successful pregnancies with a unilateral TRAM (use of one of the abdominal muscles), this is not the case with a bilateral TRAM (use of 2 of the abdominal muscles). The concern is that without these muscles a body would not be able to support a pregnancy and the possibility of a herniation would be great.
