Medical Reviews

Octyl-2-cyanoacrylate is a long carbon chain cyanoacrylate derivative that is stronger and more pliable than its shorter chain derivatives. One hundred and eleven patients underwent elective surgical procedures by the same surgeon using either octyl-2-cyanoacrylate or sutures for skin closure at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Most patients underwent excision of benign skin lesions with a mean wound size of 112 mm3. Patients were randomized into either control (vertical mattress suture closure) or test groups (closure with octyl-2-cyanoacrylate).

BACKGROUND AND AIMS OF THE STUDY:

Although small lacerations of the myocardium may be repaired easily using conventional methods, larger tears or ruptures, especially if they occur in infarcted myocardial tissue, may create formidable technical challenges. Described is a method for applying sutureless pericardial patches for control of hemorrhage.

METHODS:

A sutureless pericardial patch was glued to the myocardium with commercially available household cyanoacrylate (Krazy Glue) in seven patients.