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Breast surgeon Valerie Brutus and plastic and reconstructive surgeon Stirling Craig have started performing a new take on the DIEP flap surgery called a resensation.

"So, DIEP flap surgery has a lower complication rate, and a faster recovery, than the older versions of the surgery," Potter says. "I did a DIEP flap today on a 60-plus-year-old woman," she continues.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services backed off from a plan that could have curtailed access to a type of reconstructive surgery known as DIEP flap. Breast cancer patient advocates are ...

Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas is the only hospital in the state offering a special type of breast reconstruction called DIEP flap surgery.

The DIEP — or deep inferior epigastric perforator — flap is named for the blood vessel that runs through the abdominal muscle.

The DIEP flap surgery, which uses a patient's own tissue to reconstruct the breast after a mastectomy, is an important procedure for many breast cancer survivors.

DIEP-flap reconstruction was no longer an option for me because it was used previously. Nevertheless, I knew that I wanted to use my own tissue.

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Her reconstructive surgery involved a DIEP (deep inferior epigastric perforator) flap, in which skin and tissue are taken from the stomach.

But DIEP flap surgery is also more expensive. If patients go outside an insurance network for the operation, it can cost more than $50,000.