Advanced technologies and polymer materials for surgical sutures /
Polymeric materials offer a high level of versatility due to the range of applications possible within the biomedical and clinical fields - including wound closure - particularly in comparison to metals or ceramics. These specialised materials also allow for a diverse array of therapeutic effects. A...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA :
Woodhead Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier,
[2023]
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| Series: | Woodhead Publishing series in biomaterials.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Polymeric materials offer a high level of versatility due to the range of applications possible within the biomedical and clinical fields - including wound closure - particularly in comparison to metals or ceramics. These specialised materials also allow for a diverse array of therapeutic effects. Although there have been advances in improving polymeric materials for surgical sutures, there is little information available regarding improving the therapeutic value of sutures, and advanced technologies used to implement this improvement. Advanced Technologies and Polymer Materials for Surgical Sutures provides thorough coverage on suture materials with improved mechanical and therapeutic properties that can improve quality of life; chapter topics include drug-releasing kinetics of sutures, shape memory polymer sutures and future trends. This book is a useful resource for academics and researchers in the materials science and biomedical engineering fields, as well as professionals in biomaterials and biotextiles development and clinicians looking to learn more about suture material properties and suture/body interactions. |
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| Item Description: | 1. Introduction to biopolymers for surgical suture applications -- 2. Functionalization of sutures -- 3. Improving the therapeutic value of sutures -- 4. Evaluating the mechanical properties of sutures -- 5. Polymers for surgical sutures -- 6. Smart sutures -- 7. Bioactive sutures: advances in surgical suture functionalization -- 8. Engineering aspects of suture fabrication -- 9. Revisiting the properties of suture materials: an overview -- 10. Suture materials, emerging trends -- 11. Biocompatibility and cytotoxicity of polymer sutures -- 12. Shape memory polymers as sutures -- 13. Drug release kinetics of sutures |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). |
| ISBN: | 9780323853491 0323853498 |