Absorbable Suture Materials: Preparation and Properties

Singhal, Jai Paul; Singh, Harpal; Ray, Alok R.

doi:10.1080/15583728808085383

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“…It would be easy for the surgeon to handle and knot it reliably. An ideal suture should have the following characteristics [1,4,5,[9][10][11]]:…”

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“…Although there are other methods for mechanical wound closure such as staples, tape, and adhesive [2], sutures are the most widely used materials in wound closure. Sutures have registered tremendous growth during the last two decades and have become the largest group of biomaterials having a huge market exceeding $1.3 billion annually [3][4][5][6][7]. Although several evaluations of suture materials have been published [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18], there were no serious attempts of late on a comprehensive review of production, properties, biodegradability, and performance of suture materials.…”

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“…A review with substantial input on biodegradability and emerging trends on sutures was published by Singhal et al in 1988 [4]. They have brought out the salient features of absorbable sutures based on poly(glycolic acid) (PGA) and its copolymers and mentioned the coming of the promising polydioxanone (PDO; certain authors use PDS to indicate polydioxanone suture) and poly(trimethylene carbonate) (PTMC) based absorbable sutures.…”

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Review Paper: Absorbable Polymeric Surgical Sutures: Chemistry, Production, Properties, Biodegradability, and Performance

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Among biomaterials used as implants in human body, sutures constitute the largest groups of materials having a huge market exceeding $1.3 billion annually. Sutures are the most widely used materials in wound closure and have been in use for many centuries. With the development of the synthetic absorbable polymer, poly(glycolic acid) (PGA) in the early 1970s, a new chapter has opened on absorbable polymeric sutures that got unprecedented commercial successes. Although several comparative evaluations of suture materials have been published, there were no serious attempts of late on a comprehensive review of production, properties, biodegradability, and performance of suture materials. This review proposes to bring to focus scattered data on chemistry, properties, biodegradability, and performance of absorbable polymeric sutures.

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“…It would be easy for the surgeon to handle and knot it reliably. An ideal suture should have the following characteristics [1,4,5,[9][10][11]]:…”

Section: Characteristics Of Suture Materialsmentioning

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Review Paper: Absorbable Polymeric Surgical Sutures: Chemistry, Production, Properties, Biodegradability, and Performance

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“…The former includes both simple, passive devices such as artificial joints and pins,1 as well as sophisticated electronic components such as deep brain electrical stimulators,2 cardiac pacemakers3 and programmable drug delivery systems 4. The latter, by contrast, is currently available only in the form of passive elements such as resorbable sutures5, 6 or matrices for drug release,7, 8 degradable intravascular stents9, 10 and resorbable plate‐screw systems 11. An unaddressed technology opportunity, then, exists in biodegradable devices that are capable of active electronic processing, sensing, communication and/or actuation within or on the surface of the body.…”

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Materials and Fabrication Processes for Transient and Bioresorbable High‐Performance Electronics

Hwang

Kim

Tao

et al. 2013

Adv Funct Materials

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Materials and fabrication procedures are described for bioresorbable transistors and simple integrated circuits, in which the key processing steps occur on silicon wafer substrates, in schemes compatible with methods used in conventional microelectronics. The approach relies on an unusual type of silicon on insulator wafer to yield devices that exploit ultrathin sheets of monocrystalline silicon for the semiconductor, thin films of magnesium for the electrodes and interconnects, silicon dioxide and magnesium oxide for the dielectrics, and silk for the substrates. A range of component examples with detailed measurements of their electrical characteristics and dissolution properties illustrate the capabilities. In vivo toxicity tests demonstrate biocompatibility in sub‐dermal implants. The results have significance for broad classes of water‐soluble, “transient” electronic devices.

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“…Devices constructed using bioresorbable materials have many roles in clinical medicine, ranging from drug delivery vehicles1, 2 to stents3, 4 and sutures 5, 6. In such cases, the function is defined primarily by the mechanics and/or the structure of the component, with operation that is often passive.…”

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The use of low‐energy SIMS (LE‐SIMS) for nanoscale fuel cell material development

Morris¹,

Fearn²,

Perkins³

et al. 2011

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Low-energy secondary ion mass spectrometry has been used to investigate the matrix structure and interface attributes of a novel Ce 0.85 Sm 0.15 O 2 /CeO 2 multilayer fuel cell material. Nanoscale oxide systems have shown enhanced ionic conductivities when produced to form highly oriented epitaxial structures. The Sm-doped CeO 2 material system is of particular interest for fuel cell technology because of its inherently high ionic conductivity at low operating temperatures (600-800• C). For this study, a nanometer-scale Ce 0.85 Sm 0.15 O 2 /CeO 2 multilayer was grown by pulsed laser deposition. The sample was annealed at 700• C in an oxygen ambience. High-resolution, low-energy depth profiling using Cs revealed some diffusion of the multilayer structure after annealing, along with a possible volume change for the Sm-doped layers. Changes in layer volume will lead to an increase in the mechanical strain and may cause the material to crack. The findings presented here suggest that the Ce 0.85 Sm 0.15 O 2 /CeO 2 multilayer structure in its current form may not possess the level of thermal stability required for use within a fuel cell environment.

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Absorbable Suture Materials: Preparation and Properties

Cited by 28 publications

References 71 publications

Review Paper: Absorbable Polymeric Surgical Sutures: Chemistry, Production, Properties, Biodegradability, and Performance

Review Paper: Absorbable Polymeric Surgical Sutures: Chemistry, Production, Properties, Biodegradability, and Performance

Materials and Fabrication Processes for Transient and Bioresorbable High‐Performance Electronics

The use of low‐energy SIMS (LE‐SIMS) for nanoscale fuel cell material development

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