Medtronic Sofsilk Reverse Cutting Suture with Needle HE-5

Medtronic Sofsilk Reverse Cutting Suture with Needle HE-5 are nonabsorbable, sterile, non-mutagenic surgical sutures composed of natural proteinaceous silk fibers called fibroin. This protein is derived from the domesticated silkworm species Bombyx mori of the family bombycidae. The silk fibers are treated to remove the naturally-occurring sericin gum, bleached, and braided to produce surgical silk sutures. The braided sutures are available coated uniformly with silicone or wax to reduce capillarity and to increase surface lubricity to enhance handling characteristics, ease of passage through tissue, and knot run-down properties.