2011
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20902
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The mesh repair: Tension free alternative on dealing with nerve gaps-experimental results

Abstract: We evaluated the feasibility of external epineurial splinting as a way of alleviating tension caused by sutures in the reconstruction of peripheral nerve injuries, utilizing Wistar rat median nerve injury on 40 animals, in four experimental groups with 10 animals on each surgical setting. The nerve regeneration outcomes of four surgical procedures were compared: 1) primary end-to-end sutures (EES); 2) alleviated tension sutures (ATS) with a removal of 7 mm nerve segment, namely external epineurial splinting, u… Show more

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“…Our article describing ''the alleviated tension concept'' preceded some other papers that appeared in the subsequent decade 4,5 and now in this century. 1,2 We congratulate with Kechele et al for his scientific demonstration that epiperineurial staying sutures can close some critical gap distances between the stumps of transected nerves allowing a direct end-to-end suture without tension and a good functional result. However, the propylene mesh is a potential factor of fibrosis that probably could be avoided using as a good alternate the surrounding tissue.…”
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“…Our article describing ''the alleviated tension concept'' preceded some other papers that appeared in the subsequent decade 4,5 and now in this century. 1,2 We congratulate with Kechele et al for his scientific demonstration that epiperineurial staying sutures can close some critical gap distances between the stumps of transected nerves allowing a direct end-to-end suture without tension and a good functional result. However, the propylene mesh is a potential factor of fibrosis that probably could be avoided using as a good alternate the surrounding tissue.…”
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“…by Kechele et al 1 and Bertelli et al 2 in which they presented the alleviated tension sutures technique using an external epineurial splint to overcome a 7-mm nerve gap in the median nerve of rats 1 and a mean of 28-mm nerve gap in the median nerve of six patients. 2 In 1987, we described a similar method for repairing nerves in five patients; the epiperineurial stitches used were 6-0 to 8-0 according to the size of the nerve under repair and were secured, instead that at a mesh, directly to the surrounding fascia tissue.…”
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“…21,80,98 En nuestro estudio no existieron automutilaciones, en paralelismo con otros reportes en los cuales no encontraron ningún caso de este comportamiento, resultante de la anestesia en miembros desnervados y su posterior autofagia. 22,88 Si bien es indistinta la utilización del nervio ciático derecho o izquierdo, se ha utilizado el derecho en todos los animales en concordancia con otros experimentos. 70,71,97 Es importante asimismo realizar el abordaje de un solo miembro por animal, con el fin de que el contralateral inalterado contribuya con la recuperación funcional del miembro abordado, resultando esta muy dificultosa si son operados ambas extremidades debido al enorme déficit que sufre el animal.…”
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“…19 Un estudio experimental en ratas pone de manifiesto que el flujo sanguíneo disminuye un 50% luego de una elongación del 8% del nervio luego de 30 minutos de tensión sostenida, mientras que un estiramiento del 15% lo reduciría hasta un 80% con mínima restitución luego de la relajación. 22,116 La tensión crece de manera exponencial a medida que aumenta el defecto a reparar. 80 Se sostiene que la técnica de PED elimina los efectos deletéreos de la tensión en el sitio de coaptación íntima de los cabos nerviosos, ya que traslada dicha tensión hacia proximal y distal del nervio utilizando la elasticidad natural del mismo.…”
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