![]() ![]() Spector asked for material that would be strong enough to protect the intestines from a needle puncture and bendable enough to insert through a laparotomy incision that would quickly dissolve in the body.Īs it turned out, Putnam’s then graduate student Nicole Ricapito had created and was testing a material that met those specifications. Unsatisfied with the existing tools to help prevent these poor outcomes, Spector turned to his long-time collaborator David Putnam, associate professor in the Meinig School. “I’ve done a lot of incisional hernia repairs on people who’ve had two, three or more hernia repairs,” said Spector, professor of surgery (plastic surgery) and of plastic surgery in otolaryngology at Weill Cornell Medicine, an adjunct professor in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering and a plastic surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Often, repairing these complications requires additional surgeries. ![]() ![]() If the process goes awry, there can be serious consequences for patients, including bowel perforations or a hernia at the incision site. Jason Spector is often faced with the challenge of securely closing the abdominal wall without injuring the intestines. ![]()
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