A member asked:

I had my gallbladder removed 3 years ago, is there a possibility that the stitch on the inside has opened after all this time?

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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr answered

Specializes in Preventive Medicine

Possible; Relevant?: Unlikely. Why? The purpose of sutures=only temporary: hold tissue in close approximation, allow more rapid healing into the goal new organization. After days-to-weeks all the strength is within the tissues, not the sutures. [For a variety of purposes, resorbable sutures are used which dissolve (eaten away by macrophages) within a few weeks to ~3 months.] Afterwards suture=only a foreign object.

Answered 10/21/2017

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