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Automated remote transapical wound closure system study.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21958800     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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PURPOSE: A readily applied and reliable means to create and close transapical wound access sites through a small intercostal opening could benefit many cardiac patients. Using relevant surgical tissue models, this research evaluated a new approach to enable single-port transapical wound site closure toward the eventual development of safe percutaneous access to the left ventricle.
DESCRIPTION: Novel techniques and technologies were developed and successfully tested for remote automated placement of 2 pledgeted horizontal mattress sutures delivered concentrically around a transmural apical guidewire, which provided a tract to enable therapeutic intervention. Mechanical pledgeted knots secured these sutures after cannula removal.
EVALUATION: Automated transapical closures were created in 47 ex vivo porcine hearts and in 10 human cadavers, 8 through a thoracotomy and 2 thoracoscopically. Automated apical closures achieved hemostasis in an acute beating heart thoracotomy model in 3 anesthetized pigs. An ex vivo porcine heart pressurized infusate model demonstrated the intraventricular pressure tolerated by automated closures (mean, 327 mm Hg) compared with hand-sutured closures (mean, 303 mm Hg).
CONCLUSIONS: All automated apical closures were effective. Early results encourage further evaluation.
Authors:
Peter A Knight; Jude S Sauer; James W Kaufer; Candice L Wilshire
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Annals of thoracic surgery     Volume:  92     ISSN:  1552-6259     ISO Abbreviation:  Ann. Thorac. Surg.     Publication Date:  2011 Oct 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-09-30     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  15030100R     Medline TA:  Ann Thorac Surg     Country:  Netherlands    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1494-8     Citation Subset:  AIM; IM    
Copyright Information:
Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York.
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