St. Josef-Krankenhaus Kupferdreh

Range of services

Lipedema centre

The treatment focuses on liposuction. Water-jet assisted liposuction is used to gently and permanently remove the diseased fat cells. If a tightening operation is necessary after liposuction, you are also in good hands with us.

The examination is usually carried out by our experienced specialists on referral from a registered phlebologist or vascular surgeon, who in most cases has already made the initial diagnosis and initiated conservative therapy.

Therapy Concept Überschrift

Therapy concept

Therapy Concept Text

  • Creation of a treatment plan (conservative and surgical)
  • Professional treatment by experienced specialists in plastic and aesthetic surgery
  • Liposuction using the tumescent technique or water-jet assisted liposuction (WAL)
  • All types of tightening after weight loss (including, for example, after bariatric surgery) or liposuction:
    • Tummy tuck – as conventional abdominoplasty or T-incision, possibly in combination with abdominal hernia surgery and/or closure of a rectus diastasis
    • Buttock lift
    • Body lift (lower, upper; complete 360-degree lift of the torso)
    • Thoracic wall lift (external or in the sense of a bra line back lift)
    • Thigh lift (vertical, horizontal, or combined)
    • Lower leg lift
    • Knee lift
    • Upper arm lift
    • Forearm lift
    • Breast reduction (mammoplasty) for macromastia
    • Breast lift (mastopexy) and breast shaping/reconstruction after massive weight loss (e.g., autologous fat transfer, implants)
    • Gynecomastia surgery (liposuction, lift)
  • Cooperation with a medical supply store for custom-made compression garments
  • Cooperation with a qualified physiotherapy practice for manual lymphatic drainage (MLD)
  • Nutritional counselling
  • Preparation of a certificate and photo documentation of the findings for submission to the health insurance company for the purpose of applying for cost coverage

The measurements for the compression garments required after the procedure are taken by our partner medical supply store during the consultation.

Treatment Überschrift

Treatment

Behandlung Text

Gentle anesthesia procedures and postoperative pain management 

Analgesic sedation
Under certain conditions, it is possible to perform the procedure under so-called analog sedation (twilight sleep). For this purpose, our anesthesiologists administer medication to the patient to calm them, relieve pain, and induce sleep, tailored to their individual physical and health conditions. It is also possible to perform liposuction under spinal anesthesia.

General anesthesia
The majority of liposuction procedures are performed under general anesthesia.

Pain management
Postoperative pain management is provided by the anesthesia department.

Liposuction

After injecting the tumescent solution through several small incisions in the skin, liposuction is performed in a targeted manner on the areas of the body previously determined together with the patient.

Nachbehandlung Überschrift

Follow-up treatment

Nachbehandlung Text

Follow-up treatment plays a key role in the success of the therapy. We are of course available to our patients for outpatient follow-up treatment (wound checks, suture removal) even after they have been discharged from the hospital.

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