Effectiveness of Wound Closure Using V-Loc™ 90 Sutures in Lipoabdominoplasty Patients

Cost Effectiveness and Clinical Outcomes of Wound Closure Using V-Loc™ 90 Sutures.

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Phase 4

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01574378

Enrollment

Registered

2012-04-10

Start date

2010-08-31

Completion date

2012-10-31

Last updated

2012-04-10

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Conditions

Open Surgical Wounds

Keywords

Abdominoplasty

Brief summary

VLock suture studied in abdominal wound closure. Time and cosmesis was studied

Interventions

DEVICEconventional closure

non barbed sutures used to close wounds Conventional three layer wound closure using non-locking sutures polyglactin 910 (Vicryl, Ethicon) and polyglecaprone 25 (Monocryl, Ethicon)

DEVICEV-Loc 90

2-layer wound closure using V-Loc 90 barbed suture

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

32 Years to 75 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* lipoabdominoplasty patients

Exclusion criteria

* poor health, * history of radiation, * smoking

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
closure time	1 day	operative closure time studied

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Safety- number of complications	12 months	Number of complications on control incisions vs number of complications on experimental incisions
Cosmesis	12 months	Scar thickness and appearance

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026