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A Comparison between Barbed and Nonbarbed Absorbable Suture for Fascial Closure in a Porcine Model
A Comparison between Barbed and Nonbarbed Absorbable Suture for Fascial Closure in a Porcine Model
- Source :
- Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. 130:535e-540e
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2012.
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Abstract
- The use of knotless barbed sutures has shortened operation times for wound closure. In experimental models, their use in tendon surgery is still under investigation. This study looks at the use of barbed sutures in a porcine model for fascial repair when compared with traditional absorbable suture to further extend their clinical use.Six animals were included in this study. Each had two paramedian incisions, down to the fascia at the junction between the lateral edge of the rectus abdominis muscle and the transverse abdominis/oblique muscles of the abdominal wall. One fascial incision was closed with 2-0 Quill polydioxanone barbed suture and the other was closed with the control suture 1-0 PDS II (polydioxanone). The overlying skin was closed with Quill polydioxanone barbed suture for both incisions. At 6 weeks, the fascia was excised and the suture lines were tested for tensile strength.There were no wound infections and no incisional hernias. The Quill polydioxanone barbed suture had a mean tissue tensile strength of 265.59 N (range, 206.86 to 306.38 N) and the control suture (polydioxanone) had a mean tissue tensile strength of 227.28 N (range, 132.79 to 290.35 N). The difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.341).This study demonstrated that barbed sutures for fascial repair have equivalent tensile strength when compared with traditional nonbarbed sutures, with no adverse events such as wound dehiscence or incisional hernia. This preclinical study lends support to the practice of using barbed sutures for indications such as rectus sheath plication.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
animal structures
Abdominal Wound Closure Techniques
Swine
Sus scrofa
Absorbable suture
macromolecular substances
Sensitivity and Specificity
Abdominal wall
Random Allocation
Polydioxanone
chemistry.chemical_compound
Tensile Strength
Absorbable Implants
medicine
Animals
Random allocation
Sutures
business.industry
Abdominal Wall
Suture Techniques
Biomechanical Phenomena
Fasciotomy
Surgery
Tendon
Disease Models, Animal
medicine.anatomical_structure
chemistry
Wound closure
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00321052
- Volume :
- 130
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6eacdfc5edd756990b5dc23a075a6267
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/prs.0b013e318262f0f6