Panacryl Sutures
Panacryl absorbable sutures were introduced to the market by Ethicon, Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson in 1999. On March 28, 2007 Ethicon, Inc. announced a voluntary recall of the Panacryl sutures. Generally used during internal surgery these sutures, or stitches, were supposed to be absorbable to be easier on a patient afterwards, not requiring a secondary surgery to remove stitches placed on the interior of the body. Ethicon stated that 1,061,712 sutures throughout the world were involved in this recall.
The Panacryl sutures were recalled due to many post surgical problems, due to the sutures not being absorbed into the body as intended. Some of the problems involved with these sutures other than the failure of being absorbed into the body were; a high rate of infection, granulomas (scar tissue buildup under the skin, causing a bump), spitting sutures (the body rejecting the suture and forcing it through the skin) and tunneling (the inhibition of healthy tissue growth around the incision marks of the sutures). The majority of the Panacryl difficulties were found when they were used in the lower abdominal area of the body.
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