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The research behind its development came from a lab at Harvard Medical Schools primary teaching hospital, a detail noted routinely in news features and talk show segments...
Cryolipolysis, the technical term for the procedure, involves placing a device onto a targeted part of the body to freeze fat cells. Patients typically undergo multiple treatments on the same area..
More than a dozen doctors interviewed by the Times said the manufacturers estimate of the risk was sharply lower than what they had observed in their practices or research in part because the side effect can take many months to become visible, and patients dont always connect it to CoolSculpting..
R. Rox Anderson, an inventor of CoolSculpting, and Dr. Mathew Avram, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Dermatology Laser and Cosmetic Center wrote an internal review of 11 patients experiencing the side effect.. Zeltiq notified the FDA..
More discrepancies in data would follow, in part because the company and its consultants used the number of treatments to calculate the risk of PAH, while physicians observing the side effect usually used the number of patients...
