The use of cyanoacrylate adhesive (Krazy Glue) in cardiac surgery
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A Hydrogel Construct and Fibrin-based Glue Approach to Deliver Therapeutics in a Murine Myocardial Infarction Model.
Published on: June 14, 2015
F Robicsek1, J P Rielly, M C Marroum
1Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Abstract:
The authors report four cases of patients in desperate clinical situations where cyanoacrylate adhesive (Krazy Glue) was successfully used to control hemorrhage. Clinical observations were supplemented with bacteriological studies which showed that commercially available cyanoacrylate adhesive showed lack of bacteriological contamination.
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