[The resistance to infection of digestive sutures. Experimental study (author's transl)]

The authors study the effects of severe sepsis due to pathogenic gems in large quantity an healing of the suture of the ileum in the rabbit. Contamination of the suture did not lead to any breakdown of the suture whatever the germ. These experimental facts, compared with the data in the literature suggest that the peritoneal serosa ensures efficacious anti-infectious defence, permitting healing of intra-peritoneal digestive sutures in spite of the septic nature of the intestinal contents.