Having unique services and being an expert in what you provide is important both for a successful business and for patient safety and satisfaction. This includes being well-prepared for managing the complications. This article discusses the possible adverse effects following deoxycholic acid for the purpose of fat reduction. It also presents a case study with long-lasting cutaneous adverse events associated with deoxycholic acid administration for local excessive adipose tissue and our approach to management.
The history of using chemical compounds such as phosphatidyl choline (PDC) and/or deoxycholic acid (DCA) to treat local adipose tissue deposit can be traced back to the early 2000.1 Widely known as injection lipolysis, DCA is extensively used for non-surgical body or face contouring, targeting localised excess fat pocket. The mechanism of DCA is leading to the lysis of local…
