SOME PHYSICAL FACTORS REGARDING CATGUT LIGATURES AND CATGUT KNOTS A PRELIMINARY REPORT

Behavior of neuropathic pain in mice following chronic constriction injury comparing silk and catgut ligatures

INTRODUCTION Neuropathic pain is defined as pain arising as a direct consequence of a lesion or disease affecting the somatosensory system and is common after surgery. Neuropathic pain can persist without an obvious injury. In this study we aim to validate a murine chronic constriction injury model as a model for neuropathic pain research and determine if silk or catgut ligatures induced most s...

Evolution of catgut ligatures: the endeavours and success of Joseph Lister and William Macewen.

Lister's product was superior to Macewen's. Lister, however, had started bis experiments ,,'ith ligatures while Macewen was still a medical student and, to begin with at least, Macewen had simply followed bis master's lead. With bis continuing success with carbolic acid and the antiseptic method of wound healing, it must have seemed to Lister that, if he were to sterilize the material then in u...

Silk, Catgut, and Wound Infections *

Whether absorbable or non-absorbable suture material should be used in the repair of wounds has long been a highly controversial subject. Popular favor has swung from one extreme to the other repeatedly in the last century. Lord Lister was responsible for the initial popularity of catgut, just as Kocher was one of the first to abandon its use in favor of a non-absorbable material, i.e., silk. H...

Buried Silk, Catgut and Strabismus Sutures.

Acupoint Catgut Embedding for Obesity: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Acupoint catgut embedding (ACE) was applied widely to antiweight in China. The aim of this review is to estimate the effectiveness and safety of ACE on obesity. A literature search was conducted in PubMed, Cochrane Library, EBASE, CNKI, and so forth, using combination subject terms of obesity (or overweight, weight loss, etc.) and acupoint catgut embedding (or catgut implantation, catgut embedd...