Evaluation of mechanical suture in gastric surgery

Abstract

In the USSR, mechanical staplers developed at VNIIKHAI are becoming more and more widespread in recent years. These devices make it possible to impose a thin, durable and low-traumatic suture, in some cases without opening the lumen of the stomach, to shorten the operation time and to achieve healing of the wound of a hollow organ by primary intention [4]. The reactivity of tissues to tantalum is less pronounced, and the terms of formation and epithelialization of scars are shorter than when using soft suture material [2]. Blood loss with mechanical suture during gastric resection is halved compared to manual suture [1].