Bioceramics and Alternative Bearings in Joint Arthroplasty (eBook)

Large diameter femoral and acetabular components.- Head Diameter of 36mm: New alumina on alumina bearing surfaces.- All ceramic tripolar Total Hip Arthroplasty: experimental data and clinical results.- Clinical advantages with large diameter heads.- 36mm Ceramic head for “difficult” cases.- Resurfacing in total hip replacement.- Seven years of experience in MoM resurfacing: Results and open questions.- Surgeon and resurfacing: considerations after a long experience.- Hip Resurfacing — a superior articulation concept?.- Consideration on disadvantages and problems of resurfacing.- In vitro biomechanical properties of a hip resurfacing system.- Comparison of functional activity of hip resurfacing with total hip arthroplasty.- Hard-hard bearing systems.- Radiological development of an alumina metal back cup during 5 years.- Metal Ion Hypersensitivity in Metal-on-Metal Hip Arthroplasty.- 28mm Head in Ceramic/Ceramic Total Hip Replacement.- Ceramic Bearings Enlarging the Range of Indications for Bipolar Prostheses.- Kinematic evaluation of total hip arthroplasty with various bearing materials.- Total hip replacement with all alumina bearings in patients under 30 years of age.- Ceramic knee.- PE wear in ceramic/PE bearing surface in total knee arthroplasty: Clinical experiences of more than 24 years.- Hypersensitivity reactions in association to arthroplasty.- Ceramic Knee Design.- Ceramic knee endoprostheses: reality or future?.- Hip Revision.- Comparison of clinical results between Ceramic-Ceramic Bearings and Metal on Polyethylene in Total Hip Arthroplasty.- Revision strategy after metal on metal THR failure: Conversion to ceramic on ceramic.- Modular neck and ceramic on ceramic coupling in revision total hip arthroplasty.- Experience with BIOLOX® option revision heads.- Acetabular cup revision: pitfalls and solutions.- Revision strategies in total hip arthroplasty with respect to articulation materials.- Tribology.- Hip Joint Simulators: State of the Art.- Highly Crosslinked Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene- (UHMWPE-) Acetabular Liners in combination with 28mm BIOLOX® heads.- Wear of Highly Crosslinked Polyethylene against Cobalt Chrome and Ceramic femoral heads.- US perspective on hip simulator wear testing of BIOLOX® delta in’ severe’ test modes.- Comparison of polythene liners with alumina liners in hydroxyapatite hip arthroplasty.- Edge Loading and Squeaking in Third Generation Ceramic-on-ceramic Bearings.- Tricks and tips: how to manage the implantation of ceramic implants.- Tricks and tips in every day utilization of ceramic on ceramic coupling.- Neck Modularity and CE/CE systems.- Off-set and ceramic on ceramic bearing.- Ceramic on ceramic cementless total hip arthroplasty in arthritis following congenital hip disease: an algorithm of the surgical treatment.- 32mm alumina on alumina hip replacement for femoral neck fracture.- Is there really a “safe zone” for the placement of total hip components?.- Tips of the trade: avoiding problems with ceramic components in THR.- Future Applications.- Direct to bone — possible ceramic solutions for monolithic hip implants.- Surface Activation of Implants.- Application of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins on Solid Implants.- Future applications in ceramics.- Poster.- The use of a ceramic “sandwich cup” in 140 hip arthroplasty with a 5 years follow-up or more.- THR Charnley type with Zr/Pe Bearing results at more than 5 years FU.- Wear Performance of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Implantable PEEK against BIOLOX® Forte and BIOLOX® Delta.- Big diameter ball heads on Corail Stem: Rational indication and advantages.- The Role of Pre-Irradation Crystallinity on the Oxidation Resistance of UHMWPE.- The Effect of Pressure-Annealing on the Oxidation Resistance of Irradiated UHMWPE.- Wear Simulator Study of the Tripolar All Ceramic Hip Prosthesis.- Metallic but not ceramic wear particles increase prostaglandin E2 release and interleukin-1? (IL-1?) gene expression in human blood monocytes in vitro.- BMP-2 modified ingrowth characteristics of coated hydroxyapatite-titanium implants in aged sheep.- Ultimate Compression Strength Testing of Alumina Ceramic Femoral Heads in Revision.- BIOLOX® option: A new revision strategy with BIOLOX® ceramics.- Duolox®, a ceramic Bipolar System for Hemiarthroplasty.