Tribology in Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty: Potential Drawbacks and Benefits of Commonly Used Materials

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Large-Diameter Total Hip Replacement Bearings....Pages 3-14
Comparing Large-Diameter Metal-on-Metal and Ceramic-on-Ceramic Total Hip Replacement....Pages 15-25
Comparison of Linear Wear Rate According to Femoral Head Sizes in Metal on Conventional UHMWPE Liner....Pages 27-33
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Simulator Testing of Total Knee Replacements....Pages 37-40
Total Knee Replacement with Ceramic Components: Evaluation, Material Characteristics and Clinical Performance....Pages 41-50
In Vivo Wear of Highly Crosslinked Polyethylene in Total Knee Arthroplasty....Pages 51-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Ceramic Articulations: (Much) More Benefits than Concerns....Pages 65-70
Medium- to Long-Term Results of Ceramic-on-Ceramic Bearings in Total Hip Arthroplasty....Pages 71-83
Wear of Large Ceramic-on-Ceramic Bearings for Total Hip Arthroplasty and the Mechanical and Tribological Properties of Silicon Nitrides....Pages 85-94
Ceramic-on-Ceramic Total Hip Replacement: Five Cases of Early Delta Ceramic Liner Fracture....Pages 95-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Current Concepts in Metal-on-Metal Articulations....Pages 109-122
Why Is There a Continuing Role for Metal-on-Metal in Hip Replacement?....Pages 123-129
Long-Term Results of Metal-on-Metal Total Hip Replacement After a Minimum of Seventeen Years’ Follow-Up....Pages 131-143
Results of the Long-Term Follow-Up Study After the Metasul Metal-on-Metal Cementless Total Hip Arthroplasty....Pages 145-151
Clinical and Radiological Results Following Revision Surgery of Metal-on-Metal Articulation in Total Hip Arthroplasty....Pages 153-161
Evaluation of Different Consensus Statements on Thresholds for Metal Ions in Metal-on-Metal Total Hip Arthroplasties....Pages 163-170
Association Between Histological Findings and Whole Blood Metal Ion Levels with Pseudotumor Characteristics Indentified in MRI....Pages 171-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Evolution of UHMWPE: Do We Need Antioxidants?....Pages 185-196
What Happens to the Vitamin E in a Vitamin-Stabilised HXLPE?....Pages 197-205
HXLPE with Vitamin E in Isoelastic Monoblock Pressfit Cup: 2-Year Follow-Up with Clinical and Radiological Scores....Pages 207-215
Back Matter....Pages 217-221