
Braun Catgut Multi-Casset 8(4) 25m
This Braun Catgut suture is a fast-absorbing surgical gut suture made from strands of collagenous material. These fast-absorbing surgical gut sutures are sterile and cause only minor tissue reactions during absorption.
Features
- Tensile strength 8 metric, 4 USP or 135 Newtons
- 25m length
- Multi-casset
- No coating
- Ivory colour
- Twisted multifilament with a monofilament appearance
- Strands of purified collagen taken from the serosal layer of selected bovines
- Origin from BSE-free classified countries
- Moderate tissue reaction
- Absorbed by phagocytosis
- Complete mass absorbtion in 63 days (approximately)
- 50% (approximately) tensile strength remains after 7 days
- When used in infected tissues or tissues with increased levels of proteolytic enzymes (stomach, cervix, vagina), it is more quickly absorbed