Reconstructive Care
Patients dealing with a variety of birth defects and/or physical deformities can benefit from reconstructive care.
Our WakeMed Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery team can treat abnormalities of the body that may result from congenital defects, developmental abnormalities, disease, injury, infection and removal of tumors.
Conditions
- Abdominal wall, chest, and spine reconstruction
- Breast cancer — mastectomy
- Complex cutis aplasia
- Craniofacial anomalies and malformations
- Craniosynotosis
- Congenital anomalies
- Congenital missing digits and limbs
- Encephalocele
- ENT, head & neck conditions
- Genital and perineal reconstruction
- Oncologic defects (any body part)
- Osteoradionecrosis
- Pain/peripheral nerve damage
- Pectus carinatum
- Pectus excavatum
- Poland syndrome
Treatments
- Chest wall surgery
- Cranial vault reconstruction
- Diabetic limb salvage
- Facial reconstruction
- General reconstruction for oncologic defects
- Genital reconstruction
- Hand reconstruction
- Microsurgery
- Otoplasty
- Pre-pectoral breast reconstruction
- Spring-assisted cranioplasty
- Tissue reconstruction
- Upper and lower extremity limb reconstruction
Risks and Complications
Reconstructive surgeries are often performed to improve appearance and mobility for a patient. Reconstructive surgery is often invasive and may carry some risks.
Patients should be aware that those who smoke, have connective-tissue damage, skin damage from radiation, HIV, an impaired immune system and poor quality nutrition are at greater risk for complications from reconstructive surgery.
Possible complications may include bruising, excessive bleeding, infection, challenges with anesthesia, difficulty with wound healing or complications from the surgery itself.