Total joint replacements
Investigation of wear and wear particles from a UHMWPE/multi-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposite for total joint replacements
... in total joint ...of joint replacements has been directly related to the wear of their components, interest in developing alternative novel materials with lower wear rates and improved ...
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Quantification of structural changes of UHMWPE components in total joint replacements
... of joint replacement failure in- creases significantly, and if the OI is > 3 in this region, the material is so degraded that the failure of the joint replacement is merely a question of time ...
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Incidence and prevalence of total joint replacements due to osteoarthritis in the elderly: risk factors and factors associated with late life prevalence in the AGES Reykjavik Study
... Our group has previously described positive associations between the prevalence of total knee replacements (TKRs) and BMI, hand osteoarthritis severity, total hip replace- ments (THRs), and finger ...
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Frailty as a predictor of hospital length of stay after elective total joint replacements in elderly patients
... Patient characteristics were collected before surgery (age, gender, co-morbidity, daily living activities, living status before admission, body mass index (BMI), base- line Hb level), and type of procedure, i.e., ...
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Aseptic loosening of total joint replacements: mechanisms underlying osteolysis and potential therapies
... Biologic and mechanical factors have been incriminated in the early and late stages of the development of osteolysis following joint replacement. Inflammatory reactions develop at early stages as part of the ...
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The influence of simulator input conditions on the wear of total knee replacements: An experimental and computational study
... of total joint ...fixed-bearing total knee replacement through a combined experimental and computational ...in total knee replacement, it is important to carefully control knee simulation ...
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A Comprehensive Combined Experimental and Computational Framework for Pre-clinical Wear Simulation of Total Knee Replacements
... Computational wear modelling has been extensively used for pre- clinical wear simulation in TKR (Barbour et al., 1995; Fregly et al., 2005; Abdelgaied et al., 2011, 2014; Brockett et al., 2013, 2016b), with the low cost ...
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Improvement in the assessment of wear of total knee replacements using coordinate measuring machine techniques
... Abstract: Total joint replacement is one of the most common elective surgical procedures performed worldwide, with an estimate of ...Currently joint replacements are expected to function for ...
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Optimum Combination of Femoral Head Size, Femoral Head Material, and Acetabular Cup Liner’s Highly Cross Linked Polyethylene Brand for Hip Implant
... in total joint replacements (TJRs), research and development attention, over the past 30 or so years, has focused on methods to reduce the wear of UHMWPE in counter-surfaces in ...primary ...
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Representing the Effect of Variation in Soft Tissue Constraints in Experimental Simulation of Total Knee Replacements
... From 2003 to 2015 over 800,000 primary total knee replacements (TKRs) were carried out in England, Wales and the Isle of Man (NJR, 2006). Wear is one of the main causes of failure in TKRs (Sharkey et al., ...
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The role of tribology and metrology in the latest development of bio materials
... of total joint replacements is an important means in determining and modelling failure mechanisms, functionality and improving longevity of these devices as most replacement joints fail as a ...
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Type 3 finger length pattern is associated with total knee replacements due to osteoarthritis but not with hip replacements or hand osteoarthritis in the elderly: The AGES Reykjavik study
... Background: Recent case – control studies have shown an association between type 3 finger length pattern (longer ring finger than index finger) and knee osteoarthritis. This large cross-sectional study tests the ...
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Enhancing the quality of international orthopedic medical mission trips using the blue distinction criteria for knee and hip replacement centers
... Background: Several organizations seek to address the growing burden of arthritis in developing countries by providing total joint replacements (TJR) to patients with advanced arthritis who otherwise ...
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Optimal Culture Incubation Time in Orthopedic Device Associated Infections: a Retrospective Analysis of Prolonged 14 Day Incubation
... Accurate diagnosis of orthopedic device-associated infections can be challenging. Culture of tissue biopsy specimens is often considered the gold standard; however, there is currently no consensus on the ideal incubation ...
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Implementation of robotics in total joint arthroplasty
... the infection rate for total hip and knee replacements to be between 0.67% and 2.4%. Therefore, it appears that these concerns are probably unfounded. There is no doubt that introduction of a robot into the ...
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MOBILE and the provision of total joint replacement
... happening in terms of the prioritization of individuals for a TJR, contrasting this with what they thought should happen, 24 and found that patients, like the health care professionals, think that pain and disability ...
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Joining technologies for automotive battery systems manufacturing
... • Module and pack level joining: As a result of the stackable form of prismatic cells, battery pack modularity and various design configurations for parallel or series connections are readily achievable. Module and pack ...
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Sealing the bone-implant interface around total hip replacements using guided bone regeneration.
... Maxillofacial and periodontal experience demonstrates that membrane placement, with the exclusion of fibrous ingrowth, enhances osteogenesis. This will form the basis for the secondary biological seal. Hence this ...
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Failure analysis of cemented metal-on-metal total hip replacements from a single centre cohort
... a total series of 652 Ultima TPS™ hip replacement systems metal–on–metal hip replacements had to undergo early revision at the Norfolk and Norwich University ...
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Healing of surgical site after total hip and knee replacements show similar telethermographic patterns
... After the intervention, a steep increase in the tempera- ture of the operated joint was observed in every patient. The peak in the mean differential temperature (MDT, affected minus unaffected values) occurred on ...
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