Silicone Implant Associated Syndrome
The study of Silicone Implant Associated Syndrome (SIAS), the body's reaction to silicone breast implants, should illuminate mechanisms of environmental illness and autoimmunity. Unfortunately, corporate interests have prevented this.
Description
Dr. Bernard Patten's article is devastating. An accomplished neurologist, he knew personally the inventors of silicone breast implants at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Patten treated over 2000 women with implants who had subsequent neurological and immune problems. His research, which correlated the degree of autoimmune illness with implant rupture, was ruthlessly suppressed. At the end of his article, Dr. Patten suggests a program for research and treatment.
Memoirs
of a Junk Scientist
by Dr. Bernard Patten, MD
Journal Articles
Human
adjuvant disease: presentation as a multiple sclerosis-like syndrome
by B.O. Shoaib and B.M. Patten, Southern Medical Journal,
February 1996
(abstract)
Adjuvant
breast disease: an evaluation of 100 symptomatic women with breast
implants or silicone fluid injections
by B.O. Shoaib, B.M. Patten, and D.S. Calkins, The Keio
Journal of
Medicine, June 1994 (abstract)
Silicone-reactive
disorder: a new autoimmune disease caused by immunostimulation and
superantigens
by M.A. Lappe, Medical Hypotheses, October
1993 (abstract)
Treatment
Silicone
Breast Implants and Injections
by Dr. Sarah Myhill, MD