of surgery for a scientific team at King Abdulaziz University
A scientific team from King Abdulaziz University has succeeded in registering a global patent from the US Patent Office, following the creation of an artificial surgical mesh with innovative anti-bacterial properties.
The head of the scientific team, consultant obesity and minimally invasive surgery at the university, Dr. Abdul-Malik bin Muhammad Saleh Al-Taf, explained that the invention is to a surgical artificial network that can be used in surgeries to treat hernias in contaminated surgical areas, indicating that in some advanced hernia cases, surgical areas are formed. Contaminated with bacteria present in the body tissues, which constitutes an obstacle to the use of artificial networks in these cases, so surgeons are forced to treat the hernia without using a net or to use a (biological) net that is less effective than artificial networks, but the innovative network secretes an antibiotic in the surrounding tissues for a period of at least 14 Day, which leads to getting rid of bacteria.
