Iranian Experts Make Stainless Steel Suture Wire for Heart Surgery
“One of the products of our company is stainless steel suture wire. This product is used to close the sternum bone after open heart surgery,” Hojjat Mirzayee, the production manager of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.
Noting that one of the important features and advantages of this product is its biocompatibility, he said, “Plastic and absorbable sutures are usually used for surgical operations but metal and absorbable sutures with greater strength and power should be used for the operation of the sternum area, which has a resistant bone.”
“This product remains inside the patient's body like implant equipment for life, that's why they should be biocompatible and meet the necessary standards in terms of mechanical properties like penetration, connection force, bending and other parameters,” Mirzayee said.
“This product has now received all the standards of 10993 (standard of biological evaluation of medical devices). It has also obtained the necessary approvals from the heart center and several prominent Iranian heart hospitals,” he underlined.
Surgical stainless steel suture is a nonabsorabable, sterile surgical suture. The suture is available as a monofilament and multifilament suture.
Surgical stainless steel suture is indicated for use in abdominal wound closure, hernia repair, sternal closure and orthopedic procedures including cerclage and tendon repair.
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