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VLock suture studied in abdominal wound closure. Time and cosmesis was studied
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Control arm | Active Comparator | Control arm- conventional method of wound closure |
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| V-Loc group | Experimental | V-Loc 90 barbed sutures |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| conventional closure | Device | non barbed sutures used to close wounds Conventional three layer wound closure using non-locking sutures polyglactin 910 (Vicryl, Ethicon) and polyglecaprone 25 (Monocryl, Ethicon) |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| closure time | operative closure time studied | 1 day |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Safety- number of complications | Number of complications on control incisions vs number of complications on experimental incisions | 12 months |
| Cosmesis | Scar thickness and appearance |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Vladimir Grigoryants, MD | Glendale | California | 91206 | United States |
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| V-Loc 90 | Device | 2-layer wound closure using V-Loc 90 barbed suture |
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| 12 months |