After open heart surgery?
I had surgery to replace a defective aortic valve, and I've been wondering. How was my skin kept together after surgery?
I see no staples or stitches, yet the skin is together??
I had surgery to replace a defective aortic valve, and I've been wondering. How was my skin kept together after surgery?
I see no staples or stitches, yet the skin is together??
Thelardlad
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Commonly the deeper layers are stitched with dissolving sutures. Its becoming common practice to glue the superficial layers and then a medical patch is placed over the scar for 3 or 4 days.
Rebecca B
Depending on the particular type of stitches used to close your chest, they may have dissolved away as shortly as 7 days after your surgery.
(Most dissolvable stitches are gone in 7 - 14 days, occasionally it can take up to 3 months but that'd be unusual).
Anonymous
your sternum wired shut and stitches that dissolve.