Review paper: absorbable polymeric surgical sutures: chemistry, production, properties, biodegradability, and performance.
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.
Division of Biosurface Technology, Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram 695 012, India.
Chennakkattu Krishna Sadasivan
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Pillai
Chandra P
CP
Sharma
D000818:Animals; D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D003094:Collagen; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008422:Materials Testing; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry; D013536:Suture Techniques; D013537:Sutures / Q000145:classification / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends; D013718:Tensile Strength; D014945:Wound Healing
D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D011108:Polymers; D003094:Collagen