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Resistance to Tensile Stress of a Bioadhesive Utilized for Medical Purposes: Loctite 4011

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E.Jorge Herrero

A. Rocha

M. Maestro

J. L. Castillo-Olivares

Servicio de Cirugía Experimental Clínica Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, España

I. Millán

Servicio de Bioestadística Clínica Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, España

A. Carrera Sanmartin

A. Cordon

Departamento de Mecánica Estructural y Resistencia de Materiales Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales Madrid, Espan

Sutures are the materials presently employed to secure and give shape to the valve leaflets of cardiac bioprostheses. Their high resistance and low degree of elasticity in comparison with the calf pericardium of which the leaflets are made generates internal stresses that contribute to the failure of the bioprostheses.

Biological adhesives are bonding materials that have begun to be utilized in surgery, although there is a lack of experience in their use with inert tissues or bioprostheses.

We report our study of Loctite 4011, a biological glue composed of a cyano-acrylate that has been employed for medical purposes, in which samples of pericardium bonded with this adhesive were subjected to uniaxial tensile stress. The samples were glued in such a way as to leave an overlap of 1 cm² between the surfaces of the tissue. The series included 83 samples: 12 tested 24 h after bonding, 17 after 45 days, 17 after 90 days, 19 after 106 days and 18 after 152 days. The samples subjected to deferred trials were preserved using three types of chemical substances: glutaraldehyde, glycerol or saline plus antibiotics. The mean resistance to rupture of the series tested 24 h after gluing was 0.15 MPa (1.47 machine kg). This resistance remained nearly unchanged, regardless of the preservation solution employed, for at least 152 days, the time at which the study ended. The stress strain curves demonstrated a high degree of elasticity throughout the 152 days, a finding that was not influenced by the preservation solution.

This adhesive showed a considerable resistance to tensile stress, although probably insufficient to replace sutures. However, it maintained a surprisingly high degree of elasticity in the samples. Perhaps the time has come to combine these two elements, sutures and adhesives, to improve the elasticity of the structure without a loss of resistance, and increase the durability of bioprostheses.

Key Words: biological adhesives • cardiac bioprostheses • mechanical resistance

Journal of Biomaterials Applications, Vol. 18, No. 3, 179-192 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0885328204039654


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