ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023
Role of Absorbable Polysaccharide Hemostatic Powder in the Prevention of Bleeding and Wound Events after Thyroid Surgery.
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- Efficacy of Sapylin in endoscopic thyroid cancer surgery: a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Trial
- A novel polysaccharide hemostatic agent in prevention of post-procedural bleeding following large colonic polyp resection.Endoscopy international open · 2026Article
- The Use of Microporous Polysaccharide Hemospheres in Thyroid Surgery: A Retrospective Study on Safety and Clinical Outcomes.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Total Thyroidectomy with Harmonic Scalpel Combined with Gelatin Thrombin Hemostatic: A Focus on the Elderly Population-A Multicentric Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Role of Absorbable Polysaccharide Hemostatic Powder in the Prevention of Complications After Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Breast Cancer Patients: A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Implementation of a Cost and Variation Reduction Program for Hemostasis Products at a Large Academic Medical Center: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective.Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- Risk factors for increased drain output after endoscopic thyroidectomy via areola approach: a retrospective cohort study.Gland surgery · 2024Article
- Review of Evidence Supporting the Arista™ Absorbable Powder Hemostat.Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundBleeding is one of the most fearsome and life-threatening complications after thyroid surgery. Several medical devices and haemostatic agents have been proposed to improve haemostasis during total and hemi-thyroidectomy. Resorbable polysaccharide powder (HaemoCer™) is a plant-based polymer that is helpful in terms of the coagulation cascade becoming a gel and forming a barrier to prevent further bleeding, having tested for haemostasis in different districts. The aim of the current study was the evaluation of drain output, the presence of significant postoperative blood loss and complications in patients treated with or without resorbable polysaccharide powder during thyroid surgery.
methodsFrom January to December 2022, postoperative bleeding, drainage output and the postoperative wound events of patients undergoing thyroid surgery, in a tertiary centre, with haemostasis completion with resorbable polysaccharide powder (Group A) or not (Group B), were retrospectively analysed.
resultsEighty-one patients in Group A received a haemostasis improvement with the use of reabsorbable polysaccharide powder, and 96 patients in Group B received thyroid surgery alone. Patients in Group A presented lower drainage output (0.005), lower incidence of neck haematoma (0.005) and seroma (0.021), confirmed also by multivariate analysis.
conclusionsThe resorbable polysaccharide powder, in the current series, appeared to be an effective agent in achieving haemostasis in thyroidectomies, reducing the postoperative drainage output, and also neck events such as neck haematoma and seroma, improving the postoperative comfort of the patients. Further larger comparative studies are needed to address this issue.
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