Renal & Urology News

Study Compares Single-, Double-Purse-String Suture Catheter Insertion Methods in Dialysis

Within the first month postinsertion, there were no significant intergroup differences in terms of infection complication rates or noninfection complication rates. (HealthDay News) — Similar ...
Healio

Purse-string suture effective surgical technique

SAN FRANCISCO — A technique dubbed the purse-string suture seems to be an effective surgical intervention in the treatment of neovascular glaucoma, according to a poster presentation here at the ...
Medscape

Purse-String Suture Helps Pain, Healing Time, Not Scar

DENVER — Wounds heal better when closed with the purse-string suture than when not sutured, a new study shows. However, although there was modest improvement in speed of healing and a reduction in ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Penetrating Bullet Wounds of Right Lung, Liver and Stomach, Superficial Wound of Scalp — Laparotomy. Purse-String Suture of Stomach Wound, and Closure of Wound of Liver by ...

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Science Daily

Single stranded suture threads could prevent pregnancy infection complications, C-STICH trial finds

A major clinical trial looking at surgery for women at risk of miscarriage and stillbirth have found that a type of wire commonly used reduces risk of infection. Women at risk of pregnancy loss who ...