title: [Aortic isthmus stenosis: a comparison of resorbable and non-resorb able sutures].
abstract: Absorbing vessel suture material presents the particular advantage of unlimited growth potential of young vessels. This is due to low tissue irritation and only a minimum of foreign-body reaction of the tissue. Retrospectively, we compared 9 patients (5 +/- 3 years of age), who underwent resection of the coarctation and end-to-end reanastomosis, with absorbing simple continuous suture material versus 8 patients (7 +/- 5 years of age; NS) with non-absorbing suture material using a prolong-thread suture technique, who were operated between 1980 and 1986. The growth increase before to 4 years after operation (24 +/- 10% in the "absorbing suture group-A" and 36 +/- 27% in the "non-absorbing suture group-B"; NS) just as the pressure gradient (55 +/- 11 mm Hg in group A, 58 +/- 16 mm Hg in group B (NS) before and 6 +/- 8 mm Hg in group A, 5 +/- 9 mm Hg in group B (NS) 4 years after operation) shows no significant difference. Therefore one may say that absorbing material in simple continuous suture technique presents a good alternative to the non-absorbing material in the prolonged-thread suture technique for correction of aortic isthmus stenosis, whereby analogous growth can be expected.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Herzgefässchirurgie, Universitätsspital Zürich.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wozniak
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: von Segesser
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Real
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Turina
mesh_terms: D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods*; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016687:Polydioxanone; D011091:Polyesters; D011126:Polypropylenes; D013536:Suture Techniques; D013537:Sutures
chemical_list: D011091:Polyesters; D011126:Polypropylenes; D016687:Polydioxanone
vernacular_title: Aortenisthmusstenose: ein Vergleich von nicht resorbierbarem mit resorbierbarem Nahtmaterial.