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.
1. Advanced Technologies and Polymer Materials for Surgical Sutures - p. Page i 2. Cover - p. Page i 3. Front Matter - p. Page ii 4. Table of Contents - p. Page iii 5. Copyright - p. Page iv 6. Contributors - p. Page iv 7. List of Illustrations - p. Page viii 8. List of Tables - p. Page ix 9. Chapter 1 : Advances in biopolymer based surgical sutures - p. Page ix 10. Chapter 2 : Functionalization of sutures - p. Page 13 11. Chapter 3 : Improving the therapeutic value of sutures - p. Page 39 12. Chapter 4 : Evaluating the mechanical properties of sutures - p. Page 70 13. Chapter 5 : Polymers for surgical sutures - p. Page 90 14. Chapter 6 : Smart sutures - p. Page 121 15. Chapter 7 : Bioactive sutures: advances in surgical suture functionalization - p. Page 146 16. Chapter 8 : Engineering aspects of suture fabrication - p. Page 167 17. Chapter 9 : Revisiting the properties of suture materials: an overview - p. Page 194 18. Chapter 10 : Suture materials, emerging trends - p. Page 229 19. Chapter 11 : Biocompatibility and cytotoxicity of polymer sutures - p. Page 246 20. Chapter 12 : Shape memory polymers as sutures - p. Page 261 21. Chapter 13 : Drug release kinetics of sutures - p. Page 279 22. Index - p. Page 297
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.
1. Advanced Technologies and Polymer Materials for Surgical Sutures - p. Page i 2. Cover - p. Page i 3. Front Matter - p. Page ii 4. Table of Contents - p. Page iii 5. Copyright - p. Page iv 6. Contributors - p. Page iv 7. List of Illustrations - p. Page viii 8. List of Tables - p. Page ix 9. Chapter 1 : Advances in biopolymer based surgical sutures - p. Page ix 10. Chapter 2 : Functionalization of sutures - p. Page 13 11. Chapter 3 : Improving the therapeutic value of sutures - p. Page 39 12. Chapter 4 : Evaluating the mechanical properties of sutures - p. Page 70 13. Chapter 5 : Polymers for surgical sutures - p. Page 90 14. Chapter 6 : Smart sutures - p. Page 121 15. Chapter 7 : Bioactive sutures: advances in surgical suture functionalization - p. Page 146 16. Chapter 8 : Engineering aspects of suture fabrication - p. Page 167 17. Chapter 9 : Revisiting the properties of suture materials: an overview - p. Page 194 18. Chapter 10 : Suture materials, emerging trends - p. Page 229 19. Chapter 11 : Biocompatibility and cytotoxicity of polymer sutures - p. Page 246 20. Chapter 12 : Shape memory polymers as sutures - p. Page 261 21. Chapter 13 : Drug release kinetics of sutures - p. Page 279 22. Index - p. Page 297
