Man-made yarns for reabsorbable surgical suture materials

Biber, B. L.; Kuz'mina, N. L.

doi:10.1007/bf00545875

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“…Panacryl Õ is another commercially developed suture from the copolymer with a higher LA/ GA ratio in order to decrease the rate of degradation. Several copolymers have subsequently been developed for the fabrication of monofilament sutures [100][101][102][103].…”

Section: Absorbable Synthetic Suture Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

2010

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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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Section: Absorbable Synthetic Suture Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

2010

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“…Absorbable fibres having diameters down to 10μm prepared from polyglycolide and a copolymer of glycolide with lactide, are extremely necessary for ophthalmic, neuro-, cardio-, micro-, and blood vessel surgery, and for other regions of restorative surgery. It is natural that the synthesis of monomers and polymers of special purity is a decisive factor thereupon [136]. Polypropylene sutures were widely used in the applications like cardiovascular, ophthalmologic, plastic and orthopedic surgery [63,71].…”

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Surgical Sutures: Performance, Development and Use

Manavalan

Mukhopadhyay

2008

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The paper reports about different kind of sutures, their suitability and performance. An ideal suture should possess many characteristics such as - easy to handle, bio-compatibility, minimal tissue reaction, resistance to bacterial growth, adequate tensile strength and elasticity, knot security, strength loss versus healing rate of tissues. Selection of suture is often very complex for satisfying host of physical, mechanical and biological properties, and fulfilling contradictory requirements in varied applications. The paper develops an understanding about the selection of suture depending on the varied requirement. Past research work pertaining to the development of suture as reported in this paper, provides insight about the suitability of different surgical sutures and possible direction of future research.

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Man-made yarns for reabsorbable surgical suture materials

Cited by 2 publications

References 5 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

Surgical Sutures: Performance, Development and Use

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