Breast Reconstruction

1. History of Breast Reconstruction.- 2. Partial breast reconstruction.- 3. Breast reconstruction with the permanent tissue expander.- 4. Synthetic meshes in breast reconstruction.- 5. Biologic meshes in breast reconstruction.- 6. Prepectoral breast reconstruction.- 7. Breast reconstruction with fat grafting alone.- 8. Hybrid Breast Reconstruction.- 9. Breast Reconstruction with intratissular expansion and fat grafting.- 10. Breast Reconstruction with external expansion and fat grafting.- 11. Breast Reconstruction with the latissimus dorsi flap and fat grafting.- 12. Breast Reconstruction with the endoscopically harvested latissimus dorsi flap.- 13. Breast Reconstruction with the robotic-assisted latissimus dorsi harvest.- 14. Total breast reconstruction using the thoracodorsal artery perforator flap TDAP.- 15. Breast reconstruction using the muscle sparing lattisimus dorsi flap with alloplastic devices.- 16. Free and Muscle Sparing TRAM flap in breast reconstruction.- 17. DIEP flap inbreast reconstruction.- 18. Breast Reconstruction with the neurotized Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap.- 19. Breast Reconstruction with Simultaneous Lymphatic Transfers.- 20. SIEA flap in breast reconstruction.- 21. Breast Reconstruction with the laparoscopically harvested Omental Free Flap.- 22. Lumbar artery perforator flap for breast reconstruction.- 23. Superior Gluteal Artery Perforator flap in breast reconstruction.- 24. Inferior Gluteal Artery Perforator flap in breast reconstruction.- 25. Lateral thigh flap in breast reconstruction.- 26. Transverse upper gracilis flap in breast reconstruction.- 27. Profunda artery perforator flaps for breast reconstruction.- 28. Breast reconstruction with perforator flap transplants from identical twins.- 29. Breast reconstruction using scaffold-based tissue engineering.

Horacio F. Mayer, MD, FACSDepartment of Plastic Surgery
Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine
Buenos Aires, Argentina


Dr. Horacio F. Mayer is the Vice Chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires (affiliated to the University of Buenos Aires) and holds an appointment as an Assistant Professor of the Post-Graduate Program in Plastic Surgery of the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UniRio) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He also has served as a Visiting Professor for Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA, USA), Cleveland Clinic Florida (Weston, FL, USA), Duke University (Durham, NC, USA), the Campus Bio-Medico Universitá di Roma (Rome, Italia), Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden), the University of the Republic (UDELAR), Montevideo, Uruguay and the University of Chile (UCH), Santiago de Chile, Chile.

Dr. Mayer is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Plastic Surgery and has authored eight book chapters and over 30 scientific articles in a variety of distinguished plastic surgery books and journals including "Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery" (PRS), "Journal of Plastic Reconstructive Aesthetic Surgery" (JPRAS), "Aesthetic Surgery Journal" (ASJ), "Aesthetic Plastic Surgery" (APS), "European Journal of Plastic Surgery" (EJPS), "Scandinavian Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery" and "Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery" (JRM).

Dr. Mayer is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and a member of the Argentine Society of Plastic Aesthetic Reconstructive Surgery (SACPER), the Ibero-Latin American Federation of Plastic Surgery (FILACP), the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), International Confederation of Plastic Surgery Societies (ICOPLAST) and the Ivo Pitanguy Alumni Association (AEXPI).

He has lectured in different countries of America, Europe,