Aims The role of adjustable sutures in strabismus surgery has mainly been limited to conditions like dysthyroid restrictive myopathy, blow-out fractures of orbit, aberrant regeneration of nerves ...

Researchers have found in a new study that use of barbed sutures in laparoscopic tubal anastomosis is associated with shorter ...

Surgical management of strabismus remains a challenge because surgical success rates, short-term and long-term, are not ideal. Adjustable suture strabismus surgery has been available for decades ...

Sutures are used to close wounds and speed up the natural healing process, but they can also complicate matters by causing damage to soft tissues with their stiff fibers. To remedy the problem ...

The sutures used to help close up large cuts and surgical incisions mostly get the job done, but they're far from perfect. A ...

Thanks to a rise in surgical interventions driven by an ageing population. The global surgical sutures market is expected to reach $6.65b by 2030 at a compound annual growth rate of 6.5% ...

A Shanghai woman who underwent a double eyelid procedure had to get her sutures removed at the gate of her residential complex after it was placed under Covid-19 lockdown. The woman, whose name ...

They demonstrated that the electrical stimulation produced by these sutures can speed the healing of muscle wounds in rats and reduce the risk of infection. “Our research group has been working on ...

Sutures seeded with microalgae for 14 days are able to produce oxygen (bubbles) in vitro. (Courtesy: Acta Biomaterialia 10.1016/j.actbio.2018.09.060 ©2018) To further increase the potential of this ...

Sutures made with monocryl do not need to be removed. Monocryl is an absorbable suture, which explains why it doesn't need to be removed. What are people curious about?