“Smart Sutures: The Future of Postoperative Care and Drug Delivery in Medicine”

2023-05-28 17:00:02

In the future, this type of technique will also be able to help with postoperative processes.

Image of the smart suture seen through the microscope. WITH

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The medicine further modern never ceases to amaze us. To the advances in technology, such as in the case of biobots, we must add the design of new techniques that allow human beings to improve the health of patients and this news is a great example of this. Thanks to the information published on the website of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology we have known a new type of suturecapable of not only serving as a recovery method once morest incursions in the operating room, but also have new purposes.

Sutures from another era, which have been updated

If we tell you that there is a type of suture that comes from Ancient Rome, you may be surprised. But it is that he catgut, which is what the surgical thread that is capable of being absorbed by the tissues is called, dates back to that time and has a lot to do with the medical innovation that we are showing you on these lines. In this case, as has been published in the scientific journal Matterwe are before the so-called smart suture And it is not that it is capable of being applied by itself, without external help, but that it has more elements than what we might see with the naked eye.

Engineers have designed “smart” sutures that can not only hold tissue in place, but also detect inflammation and release drugs. Made from biological materials, the sutures are coated with hydrogels that can be embedded with sensors or drugs. https://t.co/DJgK5vIbWC pic.twitter.com/D0WWy4h0FH

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The dress devised by a group of scientists led by Giovanni Traverso, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is covered by a layer of hydrogelwhich allows power include inside sensors, medicines and cells to be able to continue with the treatments, even following applying the smart suture. He case study that they have had in mind to create this novel method of suturing is the Crohn’s diseasewhose patients see a part of the intestine removed, and where this suture might help repair the incision more quickly and accurately.

On this occasion, the threads are created from pig tissues ‘decellularized’ and have been called De-gut. After a long period of time testing their characteristics, researchers have determined that these threads are not only stronger than conventional threads, but also prevent an immune response from the surrounding tissue to a greater extent.

We have already told you how these clever sutures can carryFor example, mother cellsin addition to including in its hydrogel layer medicines to treat tissue infections. Furthermore, thanks to the application of microparticles with peptides, inflammations can be detected through a simple urinalysis. The future of medicine is going through revolutions of this type, which, although they may not prevent the repetition of the seven deadliest pandemics in history, do improve the care of our bodies.

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