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Background: The use of suture materials for the closure of wounds is a practice described in Egyptian parchments since 3500 b.C. through the use of linen, animal hair, vegetable fiber, silk, leather and others. The election of the ideal suture material has to be based in the appropriate resistance to traction, tissue biocompatibility and resorption...
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... was no report of dehiscence of the wound, surgical site infections, or significant hemorrhage in any of the 122 patients. In laparoscopic appendicectomies, one patient developed a wound seroma, while other two patients developed subcutaneous abscesses with surgical site infection Table 1. This serie shows the null incidence of complications in 31 cholecystectomies, 18 fundoplications, 16 inguinal plasties and 12 abdominal plasties. ...
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Biodegradable and Bioresorbable materials, either for passive implants or wearable and active implantable devices, added a new dimension to healthcare research due to their low cost, convenience, continuous monitoring and physical augmentation. Advanced material chemistry and modern fabrication techniques have developed fully degradable implants that enable controlled degradation kinetic to ensure operational support for repairing and restructuring the surrounding tissue of the defected organ. Besides, integrated bioelectronics coupled with a wireless power system can continuously monitor and record physiological signals and conditions. This review comparatively evaluates physical and mechanical properties, degradation behavior, biocompatibility and convenient fabrication of different biodegradable and bioresorbable materials used for structural supports (substrate, encapsulation) or active device components (conductor, semiconductor, dielectric). Consecutively, material integration and device architecture of biodegradable active electronics including electronic skin, different physical and chemical sensors, self-powered and self-healable sensors have been illustrated, estimating the in vivo and in vitro device performance. Finally, some short-term and long-term challenges are pointed out to overcome the current challenges and speed up future research to commercialize the enormous expansion of the biomedical field.
