ArticleOpen medicine (Warsaw, Poland)2019
Barbed Suture and Gastrointestinal Surgery. A Retrospective Analysis.
Article in Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- A Prospective Randomized Controlled Study of Stratafix versus Standard-of-Care for Deep Tissue Closure in Orthopedic Surgery.Clinics in orthopedic surgery · 2024Trial
- Comparison of barbed suture and nonbarbed suture for laparoscopic cholecystoduodenostomy in rabbits: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Trends in adoption of knotless tissue control devices in robotic surgery.Journal of comparative effectiveness research · 2025Article
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- The effect of reinforcing sutures and trans-anal drainage tube on the outcome of laparoscopic resection for rectal cancer: propensity score‑matched analysis.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2023Article
- Application value of continuous seromuscular layer sutures in the reinforcement of esophagojejunostomy in total gastrectomy for gastric cancer: a retrospective comparative cohort study.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2022Article
- Technical details for a robot-assisted hand-sewn esophago-gastric anastomosis during minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy.Surgical endoscopy · 2022Article
- Use of barbed suture without fashioning the "classical" Wirsung-jejunostomy in a modified end-to-side robotic pancreatojejunostomy.Surgical endoscopy · 2021Article
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Abstract
Although minimally invasive surgery is recognized as the gold standard of many surgical procedures, laparoscopic suturing is still considered as the most difficult skill in laparoscopic surgery. The introduction of barbed sutures facilitates laparoscopic suturing because it is not necessary to tie a knot. The efficacy of this method has been evaluated in different types of surgery; however, less is known about general surgery. We retrospectively analysed data from 378 patients who had undergone bariatric or surgical treatment for colic or gastric malignancy requiring a closure of gastroentero, entero-entero or enterocolotomy from January 2014 to January 2019, admitted to the General Surgery Unit and Operative Unit of Surgical Endoscopy of the University Federico II (Naples, Italy). We registered 12 anastomotic leaks (3.1%), 16 anastomotic intraluminal bleedings (4.2%) and 7 extraluminal bleedings. Other complications included 23 cases of postoperative nausea and vomit (6%), 14 cases of postoperative ileus (3.7%) and 3 cases of intra-abdominal abscess (0.8%). Overall complications rate was 19.8% (75/378). No postoperative death was registered. Thus, by pooling together 378 patients, we can assess that barbed suture could be considered safe and effective for closure of holes used for the introduction of a branch of mechanical stapler to perform intracorporeal anastomosis.
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