Comparison of bursting pressure on sleeve gastrectomy staple lines between stapling, buttressing, and oversewing.

Conclusions. Reinforcement of the SG staple line, with overrunning suture, seems to drastically increase bursting pressures in an ex vivo model and it is promising when reproduced in vivo.
PMID: 33100138 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Surgical Innovation - October 24, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Tolone S, Gambardella C, Del Genio G, Brusciano L, Ruggiero R, Lucido FS, Docimo L Tags: Surg Innov Source Type: research