Effectiveness of Wound Closure Using V-Loc™ 90 Sutures in Lipoabdominoplasty Patients

Vladimir Grigoryants MD

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 4

Conditions: Open Surgical Wounds

Treatments: Device: conventional closure; Device: V-Loc 90

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01574378

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Details and patient eligibility

About

VLock suture studied in abdominal wound closure. Time and cosmesis was studied

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 32 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• lipoabdominoplasty patients

Exclusion criteria

• poor health,
• history of radiation,
• smoking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Control arm

Active Comparator group

Description:

Control arm- conventional method of wound closure

Treatment:

Device: conventional closure

V-Loc group

Experimental group

Description:

V-Loc 90 barbed sutures

Treatment:

Device: V-Loc 90