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…mehr
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.
Professor Sabu Thomas is the Director of Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is also currently the Chairman of the Trivandrum Engineering Science and Technology Research Park (TrESPARK), Trivandrum, Kerala, India. He was the former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. Prof. Thomas is a highly committed teacher and a remarkably active researcher well-known nationally and internationally for his outstanding contributions in polymer science and nanotechnology. He has published over 1400 research articles in international refereed journals. and has also edited and written 210 books. His H-index is 140 and total citations are more than 94,000. He has supervised 125 PhD theses. He has received many international and national awards and recognitions. Under the leadership of Prof. Thomas, Mahatma Gandhi University has been transformed into a top University in India. Professor of Polymer Engineering, Director, Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Polymer Science and Technology, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction to biopolymers for surgical suture applications 2. Functionalization of sutures 3. Improving the therapeutic value of sutures 4. Evaluating the mechanical properties of sutures 5. Polymers for surgical sutures 6. Smart sutures 7. Bioactive sutures: advances in surgical suture functionalization 8. Engineering aspects of suture fabrication 9. Revisiting the properties of suture materials: an overview 10. Suture materials, emerging trends 11. Biocompatibility and cytotoxicity of polymer sutures 12. Shape memory polymers as sutures 13. Drug release kinetics of sutures
1. Introduction to biopolymers for surgical suture applications 2. Functionalization of sutures 3. Improving the therapeutic value of sutures 4. Evaluating the mechanical properties of sutures 5. Polymers for surgical sutures 6. Smart sutures 7. Bioactive sutures: advances in surgical suture functionalization 8. Engineering aspects of suture fabrication 9. Revisiting the properties of suture materials: an overview 10. Suture materials, emerging trends 11. Biocompatibility and cytotoxicity of polymer sutures 12. Shape memory polymers as sutures 13. Drug release kinetics of sutures
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