Sutureless Method for Joining Blood Vessels Invented
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:35 am
Much testing remains....not ready for prime time just yet.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 141052.htmReconnecting severed blood vessels is mostly done the same way today -- with sutures -- as it was 100 years ago, when the French surgeon Alexis Carrel won a Nobel Prize for advancing the technique. Now, a team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has developed a sutureless method that appears to be a faster, safer and easier alternative.