Wound dehiscence is a surgery complication where ... the incision may pull apart at that spot.‌ Poor suture technique. Wound disruption may be caused by stitches or staples that are improperly ...

We describe a case of complete dehiscence of a DALK graft after early suture removal. Mannan et al 1 reported a case of spontaneous wound dehiscence after DALK. The sutures were removed by the end ...

Although it may only be a small opening or one suture that’s broken, wound dehiscence can quickly escalate to infection or even evisceration. Call your surgeon if you notice any symptoms.

In suture disruption the valve is thought to "cock" abnormally because of inadequate support, so that blood flowing to the left ventricle partly flows through the dehiscence around the prosthesis ...

One of the 97 patients in the suture-repair group had complete wound dehiscence after marked abdominal distention that resulted from an ileus on the fifth day after surgery. One of the 84 patients ...

57 points for the second-intention sites). Suture tracks were evident in 64% of the sutured sites. The subjects were significantly more satisfied with, and preferred four-to-one, the appearance of ...

The smart sutures are also able to detect if they have broken or unraveled, for example, during dehiscence (wound separation). If the suture is broken, the external reader picks up a reduced ...

Building on these developments, a team of researchers in Korea has now introduced an innovative approach that combines the functionality of a pH sensor with a standard medical suture. This integration ...

There really was no difference between scarring, infection, wound dehiscence, or keloid formation ... Children often don’t understand the idea that suture removal is quite different from ...

A medical-grade suture kit is the most hygienic option, of course, but sometimes you have to improvise. Lowry once stitched someone up using a loose thread pulled from the hem of her own shirt.

Wound dehiscence is a surgical complication where an incision reopens either internally or externally. Also known as wound breakdown, wound disruption, or wound separation, these terms describe ...