---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-26-016885"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "APYX"
cik: "0000719135"
company_name: "Apyx Medical Corp"
filed_at: "2026-05-14T12:05:35+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-14T12:18:32.504230+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Renuvion + liposuction shows higher satisfaction, lower revision rates in 113-patient study

## Summary
- Patients with Renuvion reported higher satisfaction with excess skin: Body-Q score 87.8 vs 73.8 (p=0.03).
- Abdominoplasty rate more than 50% lower in Renuvion group (30.0% vs 67.1%).
- Revision rate significantly lower with Renuvion (12.0% vs 37.5%; p=0.038).
- Complication rates similar between groups (2.5% vs 2.7%).
- Study published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-26-016885
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: APYX
- cik: 0000719135
- company_name: Apyx Medical Corp
- filed_at: 2026-05-14T12:05:35+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719135/000143774926016885/0001437749-26-016885-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719135/000143774926016885/apyx20260513_8k.htm

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