Woman's breast implant "swallowed" by her body during Pilates exercise

Eeew. And to think I took my first Pilates class a few weeks ago. Glad to say my body did not consume any other body parts during the ordeal. But I think I will stick to straight yoga and brisk walking from now on.

A 59-year-old U.S. woman's breast implant was "swallowed" by her body during a Pilates stretching exercise -- forcing her to go under the knife to have it retrieved and reinserted.

The woman, a cancer survivor, had undergone a double mastectomy and had then gotten breast implants. Her ribs had also been weakened after a heart operation.

During a Pilates stretching exercise known as a Valsalva maneuver the woman reported that her "body swallowed one of the implants," according to the account published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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