Enhancing the Outcome of Traumatic Sensory Nerve Lesions of the Hand by Additional Use of a Chitosan Nerve Tube in Primary Nerve Repair

What is it about?

Nerve injuries are a major problem in hand surgery. Standard treatment is microsurgical end-to-end repair of these nerves whenever possible. If surgery fails, permanent loss of sensitivity and painful neuroma formation with long lasting handicaps are typical sequelae. Nerve tubes are little resorbable tubes that are already used with success to bridge nerve defects to replace the neural sheath temporally. Nerve tubes are available of different biomaterials. Especially, chitosan is promising regarding experimental data about its biological effect on nerve growth. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether also the additional use of a chitosan nerve tube in primary nerve repair improves the sensory recovery compared to direct nerve repair alone.

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