New device offers a quicker, less invasive way to seal tears and holes in blood vessels
A team of researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a device that offers a quicker and less invasive way to seal tears and holes in blood vessels, using an electrically-activated glue patch applied via a minimally invasive balloon catheter.
This device could eventually replace the need for open or keyhole surgery to patch up or stitch together internal blood vessel defects.
After inserting the catheter into an appropriate blood vessel, the glue patch - nicknamed Voltaglue - can be guided through the body to where the tear is located and then activated using retractable electrodes to glue it shut in a few minutes, all without making a single surgical cut.
Singapore develops electrifying way to seal tears, holes in blood vessels
Singapore develops electrifying way to seal tears, holes in blood vessels 03 May 2021 | News
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A team of researchers led by NTU Singapore has developed a device that offers a quicker and less invasive way to seal tears and holes in blood vessels, using an electrically-activated glue patch applied via a minimally invasive balloon catheter.
This device could eventually replace the need for open or keyhole surgery to patch up or stitch together internal blood vessel defects.
After inserting the catheter into an appropriate blood vessel, the glue patch – nicknamed ‘Voltaglue’ – can be guided through the body to where the tear is located and then activated using retractable electrodes to glue it shut in a few minutes, all without making a single surgical cut.
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A team of researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a device that offers a quicker and less invasive way to seal tears and holes in blood vessels, using an electrically-activated glue patch applied via a minimally invasive balloon catheter.
This device could eventually replace the need for open or keyhole surgery to patch up or stitch together internal blood vessel defects.
Electrically activated glue patch repairs blood vessels from within
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Former NTU PhD student Dr. Manisha Singh, now at MIT (left) and NTU s Assoc. Prof. Terry Steele with multiple examples of the patch – missing from the shot is co-inventor Assoc. Prof. Ellen Roche from MIT
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Back in 2015, we heard about an electrically activated glue that could be used to bond items in wet conditions, or even underwater. Now, scientists have demonstrated that the material could be used to patch leaky blood vessels … from the inside.
Named Voltaglue, the adhesive was first created by a team at Singapore s Nanyang Technological University, and has since been developed in partnership with MIT.
Anytha (Smart) Steele, 88, went to her heavenly home on Friday, February 19, 2021
On September 1, 1951, she was united in marriage to Kenneth Steele in Comanche, and together they had three children. Anytha loved her church, her children and grandchildren. She was the glue that held the family together. She loved with an unconditional love. Her greatest joy was being in the house of the Lord praising her Savior. She loved talking to us about the old times and how good we have it now compared to then. If Anytha knew of anyone in need she would do her best to take care of it, always giving, asking nothing in return. She was a member of Full Gospel Church of Comanche. Her husband, Kenneth was founder and she was co-founder. Together they worked hand-in-hand.