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Influence of the selection of the suture material on the mechanical behavior of a biomaterial to be employed in the construction of implants. Part 2: Porcine pericardium.

Abstract：

:Using a hydraulic stress simulator, the mechanical behavior of the porcine pericardium used in the construction of cardiac valve leaflets was characterized following the same procedure employed with calf pericardium in Part 1 of this study. One hundred fifty pairs of tissue samples were subjected to tensile testing to rupture. One of the two samples from each of 120 pairs (four series of 30 pairs each) was saturated with commercially available threads made of nylon, silk, Prolene or Gore-Tex, while the other sample in each of these pairs was left unsewn. The remaining 30 pairs were employed as controls in which neither of the two samples was subjected to suturing. The sutured tissue samples showed a significant decrease in tensile strength at rupture (range: 11.61 to 21.22 MPa) when compared with unsutured samples (range: 50.80 to 89.45 MPa; p < 0.01). When these results were compared with their equivalent in calf pericardium, no significant differences were observed (the mean values at rupture in calf pericardium ranged between 211.61 MPa and 26.04 MPa). Again, the application of morphological and mechanical selection criteria to ensure the homogeneity of the samples provided excellent fit with respect to the stress/strain curves. The interaction of the different suture materials with the pericardial tissue was also assessed by comparing the mechanical behavior of the sutured samples with that of the control samples. At the working stress of a cardiac valve leaflet, 0.250 MPa, samples sewn with Gore-Tex were found to show the least difference in behavior with respect to the controls, indicating that this material presented the lowest degree of interaction with the pericardium. In conclusion, the suture clearly has deleterious effects on the resistance of both calf and porcine pericardium, which showed no statistically significant differences in terms of resistance to rupture when their respective sutured or unsutured samples were compared, except in the case of porcine pericardium sewn with silk, which presented lower resistance to rupture in all the zones studied. These findings suggest that the hypothesis that porcine pericardium is less resistant is erroneous. The Gore-Tex suture also presented a lower degree of interaction with the porcine pericardium, with values similar to the working stress of a cardiac valve leaflet. This methodology and the results should be evaluated in dynamic studies, such as fatigue testing, that not only confirm the resistance of the material but establish the durability of the samples being assayed.

journal_name

J Biomater Appl

journal_title

Journal of biomaterials applications

authors

García Páez JM,Carrera A,Herrero EJ,Millán I,Rocha A,Cordón A,Sainz N,Mendez J,Castillo-Olivares JL

doi

10.1106/3JXM-UTPN-PXTG-72DT

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-07-01 00:00:00

pages

68-90

issue

eissn

0885-3282

issn

1530-8022

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Influence of the selection of the suture material on the mechanical behavior of a biomaterial to be employed in the construction of implants. Part 2: Porcine pericardium.