Agnés was injected with an 'off-label' drug used in cosmetic procedures. She says her 'whole body is rotting'

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Agnés was injected with an 'off-label' drug used in cosmetic procedures. She says her 'whole body is rotting'
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Patients who have undergone a common cosmetic procedure suffer devastating side effects they believe were caused by an unregulated drug, and are calling on the booming cosmetics industry to improve patient safety.

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"It's very concerning. It's a very significant proportion," Dr Ezra said of the results, which he said were expected to be published in a medical journal in coming months. "It's not good enough to simply say, 'Well, it's completely harmless, we dissolve the filler and nothing will happen and if you've got a problem, then it's all psychological in origin' – which seems to be happening."

For specialist plastic surgeon and former president of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, Dr Naveen Somia, the enzyme is "like CPR for the skin" — essential to an injector's "resuscitation toolkit".Ben Talei, a facial plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, dissolver is used on his patients as a last resort and with a stern warning of its unpredictable nature.

He said an inflammatory response, "incited by gel [fillers] turning into a syrup, spreading, pissing off your face a little and then igniting something in someone's body that's very sensitive certainly can [happen]".

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