Corza Medical, a leading global medical technology company, today reaffirmed its commitment to the Gut suture category, ensuring surgeons continue to have access to the materials they rely on given ...

Sutures are filaments, fibers or thread-like materials used to hold a wound or tissue together. In surgical language, sutures are used for apposition – that is, the positioning (of tissue) side by ...

Cleaning absorbable sutures with hydrogen peroxide dramatically decreases their tensile strength, researchers have found. Sutures -- whose use is described in Egyptian scrolls dating from 3500 B.C. -- ...

Surgical or traumatic wounds require closing. Sutures are medical tools that help close a wound. They reduce the risk of infection and support the healing process. For example, a dentist who has to ...

Fluorescence and scanning electron microscopy images of sutures with and without microalgae loaded. (Courtesy: Acta Biomaterialia 10.1016/j.actbio.2018.09.060 ©2018) Sutures are extensively used to ...

The decision to use sutures or staples to close incisions after a cesarean delivery has been debated in the obstetrics community, but results from a new study seem to give sutures the edge, at least ...

Although surgical sutures are routinely used to close wounds within the body, they can actually damage fragile internal biological tissue, sometimes causing infections or other complications.

A team of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed “smart” sutures with the potential to benefit Crohn’s disease patients undergoing surgery, and could also have ...

As the father of six active children, I often have a teary-eyed child coming to me with an accidental cut and asking, “Does it need stitches?” Stitches are indicated when the depth of the wound would ...

Engineers have designed tissue-derived 'smart' sutures that can not only hold tissue in place, but also detect inflammation and release drugs. The sutures are coated with hydrogels that can be ...