Combined wear behavior and long-term implant-bone fixation of total knee replacement: a novel in vitro set-up

Artificial Organs
Michele SpinelliM Viceconti

Abstract

The success of a total knee replacement (TKR) strongly depends on the prosthetic design; this includes on one hand the best choice of the bearing materials to minimize wear, on the other hand a good orientation of the prosthetic components with respect to the loading directions. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of a new experimental setup combining two fundamental aspects for the long-term success of knee implants: wear and micromotions. A novel procedure was used to simulate working conditions as close as possible to in vivo ones and to measure implant-bone micromotion, by means of fixing the femoral component of the prosthesis to the distal part of a synthetic femur to be tested through a knee simulator. Gravimetric wear of the tibial specimens was assessed at regular intervals. Implant-bone inducible micromotions and permanent migrations were measured at three locations throughout the test. Wear patterns on tibial specimens were characterized through a standardized protocol based on digital image analysis; fatigue damage in the cement was quantified. Some initial conditioning was noticed both in the wear process and microcracking distribution within the cement mantle. Similarity in wear tracks observe...Continue Reading

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