[Connective elements for internal organs made of biocompatible polymers]

The paper provides technical characteristics of ESB biocompatible polymer connective elements (of polymethacrylate butyl) for internal organs. Problems of the changes of their physico-mechanical properties during experiments in model environments were discussed. Also results of medical and experimental studies of connective elements on animals, and of their biodestruction, were analyzed. Findings which could be used in clinical use of the connective elements in operating parenchymatous organs and in stomatology and traumatology are shown. On the basis of results obtained after 128 operations it was found that use of ESB connective elements ensures high reliability of haemostasis, and prevents unsealing, both physical and biological, of internal sutures and rules out any adhesion. Moreover it diminishes, in some cases even rules out, the possibility of post-operative complications.