New study favors sutures over staples for closing a C-section incision

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New study favors sutures over staples for closing a C-section incision

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/study-favors-sutures-over-staples-closing-c-section-201113810.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2CU2kDWvdxlfh8G3J4.aRg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/US-AFPRelax/shutterstock_15.daa48200644.original.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="New study favors sutures over staples for closing a C-section incision" align="left" title="New study favors sutures over staples for closing a C-section incision" border="0" /></a>Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia believe to have settled a longstanding debate over how to close a C-section, sutures trumping staples by a whopping 57 percent decrease in wound complications. Although C-sections have become common in the developed world, accounting for a third of live births in the United States and nearly 50 percent of births in China, doctors never quite settled the debate and some say staples work better on overweight women. &quot;There has been ongoing debate in the field about the use of sutures versus staples,&quot; says senior author Vincenzo Berghella, M.D., director of Maternal Fetal Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University. The study is the largest of its kind and researchers from three hospitals worked with 746 women who gave birth via caesarean section.</p><br clear="all"/>

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