Gluing (medicine)

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Gluing in medicine means filling in tissue defects or joining tissues with a biologically suitable glue .

Glue

The first medical adhesives in modern times were cyanoacrylate adhesives. They set quickly in the course of polymerization and are very strong. However, monomers are toxic, so that today they are no longer used within the body or in wounds. Currently, however, they are still used as a cosmetic cover closure for wounds .

Nowadays, fibrin glue is used almost exclusively . Here the biological property of the protein fibrin is used. The required high level of safety when dealing with natural foreign proteins in medicine means that almost without exception industrial preparation with quality monitoring makes sense.

application

  1. in endoscopy for the closure of suture insufficiencies, for filling up tissue defects
  2. for the fixation of skin grafts after burns