Increases in suture purchase of same magnitude lead to a higher gap resistance force for barbed sutures used in flexor tendon repair
Yiğit Umur Cırdı, Ali Eray Günay, Mehmet Ekici, Ömer Tolga Şekerci, Ramazan İlter Ozturk, Safa Gürsoy · 2025
Read Increases in suture purchase of same magnitude lead to a higher gap resistance force for barbed sutures used in flexor tendon repair by Yiğit Umur Cırdı, Ali Eray Günay, Mehmet Ekici, Ömer Tolga Şekerci, Ramazan İlter Ozturk, Safa Gürsoy (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-12831060.txt.
Description
Yiğit Umur Cırdı and co-authors (2025) tested how grip length affects tendon repair strength. Surgeons fixing a cut flexor tendon can use smooth polypropylene thread or barbed thread that resists sliding. The team repaired sheep tendons with each thread at two grip lengths, one or two centimeters from the cut. They pulled the repairs on a testing machine. They recorded the force that opened a two-millimeter gap and the force that broke the repair.
Doubling the grip length added far more gap resistance for the barbed thread than for the smooth one. The two-centimeter barbed repair was the strongest against gaping. Breaking strength did not differ clearly between groups, and most failures were thread breaks. The authors conclude a longer run inside the tendon makes barbed repairs notably firmer. With refinement, they suggest, barbed thread could support earlier hand movement after surgery.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yiğit Umur Cırdı, Ali Eray Günay, Mehmet Ekici, Ömer Tolga Şekerci, Ramazan İlter Ozturk, Safa Gürsoy |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |