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ReviewMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Biomaterials to Prevent Post-Operative Adhesion.

Heekyung Park, Seungho Baek, Hyun Kang, Donghyun Lee

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Review in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Heekyung ParkDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, School of Integrative Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 221 Heukseok-Dong, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul 06974, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-7051-7644
Seungho BaekDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, School of Integrative Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 221 Heukseok-Dong, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul 06974, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-7000-6577
Hyun KangDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Seoul 06973, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-2844-5880
Donghyun LeeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, School of Integrative Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 221 Heukseok-Dong, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul 06974, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-4554-5488

Funding

Chung-Ang University Chung-Ang University Research Scholarship Grants in 2018National Research Foundation of Korea 2018R1A2A2A05021467National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2018R1D1A1B07048493
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Surgery is performed to treat various diseases. During the process, the surgical site is healed through self-healing after surgery. Post-operative or tissue adhesion caused by unnecessary contact with the surgical site occurs during the normal healing process. In addition, it has been frequently found in patients who have undergone surgery, and severe adhesion can cause chronic pain and various complications. Therefore, anti-adhesion barriers have been developed using multiple biomaterials to prevent post-operative adhesion. Typically, anti-adhesion barriers are manufactured and sold in numerous forms, such as gels, solutions, and films, but there are no products that can completely prevent post-operative adhesion. These products are generally applied over the surgical site to physically block adhesion to other sites (organs). Many studies have recently been conducted to increase the anti-adhesion effects through various strategies. This article reviews recent research trends in anti-adhesion barriers.

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anti‐adhesion barrierbiomaterialsopen surgerypost‐operative adhesion

Identifiers

PMID32650529
PMCPMC7412384

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