total knee replacements
Incidence of total hip and total knee replacements from the prospective epidemiologic risk factor study: considerations for event driven clinical trial design
... At present more than 670,000 total knee replacements are performed annually in the US [24]. There is a signifi- cant proportion of patients whom experience the need for revision surgery. Albeit ...
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Optimisation of the bearing surface design of total knee replacements
... Retrieval studies [Blunn et al, 1996; Collier et al, 1991; Landy & Walker, 1988; Rose et al, 1979; Wright & Bartel, 1986] have shown that very conforming polyethylene tibial inserts of condylar total ...
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A Comprehensive Combined Experimental and Computational Framework for Pre-clinical Wear Simulation of Total Knee Replacements
... of total knee replacements ...the total knee ...curved total knee replacements (DePuy, UK) in an independent experimental wear simulation study under three di ff ...
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Representing the Effect of Variation in Soft Tissue Constraints in Experimental Simulation of Total Knee Replacements
... primary total knee replacements (TKRs) were carried out in England, Wales and the Isle of Man (NJR, ...of total joint ...and knee kinematics (Abdelgaied et ...
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Analysis of Factors Influencing True Blood Loss in Navigated Total Knee Replacements
... navigated total knee ...in total knee replace- ments and analyze the various factors such as gender, BMI, diagnosis, size of implants, duration of surgery, tourniquet usage ...cemented ...
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Early Results of Total Knee Replacements: "A Clinical and Radiological Evaluation"
... Early Results of Total Knee Replacements "A Clinical and Radiological Evaluation" Early Results of Total Knee Replacements "A Clinical and Radiological Evaluation" K S Dhillon, FRCS* Jamal, MS* S Bhup[.] ...
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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
... In this large population based study there is a clearly sig- nificant association in both genders between type 3 fin- ger pattern and OA attributed TKR but not THR. The association is independent of other established ...
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Improvement in the assessment of wear of total knee replacements using coordinate measuring machine techniques
... In a knee simulator test, the measurement of the change in mass of the test components is compli- cated by three main problems (Fig. 1): fluid absorp- tion of the UHMWPE component, the presence of a cement mantle, ...
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Consecutive series of 226 journey bicruciate substituting total knee replacements: early complication and revision rates
... cut and intramedullary distal femoral cut alignment. For the next 124 TKR, CT-less navigation (PI Galileo, Smith & Nephew, Aarau, Switzerland) was used to define the tibial and distal femoral cuts. The main femoral ...
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A Brief Follow Up Report on 228 Medial Rotation Total Knee Replacements at a Mean of 8 5 Years (0 19)
... The fully cemented Medial Rotation TKA was introduced into clinical practice in 1994. It was the first un- constrained prosthesis to feature a medial condylar design, which was represented by a portion of a sphere (25 mm ...
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The influence of simulator input conditions on the wear of total knee replacements: An experimental and computational study
... for knee wear simulation maintained the contact in the centre of the tibia and prevented femoral rollback, producing a lower cross-shear, lower wearing simulation, which will not replicate the range of kine- matic ...
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No difference in the functional improvements between unilateral and bilateral total knee replacements
... The study was reviewed and approved by the institu- tional ethics committee. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants after thorough explanation of the study. Inclusion criteria were defined previously ...
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A comparison between electromechanical and pneumatic-controlled knee simulators for the investigation of wear of total knee replacements
... for knee simulators, the control system of the knee simulator should be capable of generating loading cycles following the cycles given in Figures 2 and 3 and maintaining the magnitudes of these loading ...
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The effect of expectation on satisfaction in total knee replacements : a systematic review
... undergo total knee replacement with a diagnosis of ...revision knee replacement, made up more than 5 % of the study population the stud- ies were ...and knee replacement patients were only ...
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Wear of moderately cross-linked polyethylene in fixed-bearing total knee replacements
... a total knee replacement, make it more susceptible to fracture failure modes, therefore the mechanical properties of the material are very important in terms of preventing fatigue ...for total ...
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Validation of revision data for total hip and knee replacements undertaken at a high volume orthopaedic centre against data held on the National Joint Registry
... primary total hip replacements (THR) and total knee replacements (TKR) undertaken by 23 surgeons at our hospital, over an 11-year period, ...
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Healing of surgical site after total hip and knee replacements show similar telethermographic patterns
... for total hip and for total knee replacements, underwent telethermographic examination of the operated and con- tralateral joints prior to and at fixed intervals for up to 1 year after ...
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TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: MODERN SURGERY FOR SEVERE ARTHRITIS OF THE KNEE
... a total knee replacement (TKR) produces the most effective and dramatic relief that can been achieved in the treatment of severe arthritis of the ...the knee, much as we replace worn tires with new ...
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Study of Coronal Alignment of Knee after Total Knee Replacement
... Though the BMI is within the normal range, in our population, osteoarthritis of knee had developed comparatively at an earlier age. This may due to the practices adopted by people in this part of the world like ...
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Survival of Cementless and Cemented Porous-coated Anatomic Knee Replacements: Retrospective Cohort Study
... knee (12). It is difficult to explain why poor results are achieved with the PCA endoprosthesis, either ce- mented or cementless. The major cause of revision in our series, as well as in the Newcastle study, were ...
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