Metal-on-Metal Bearings A Clinical Practicum /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jones, Lynne C. (Editor), Haggard, Warren O. (Editor), Greenwald, A. Seth (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Materials science.; Molecular biology.; Orthopedics.; Biomedical engineering.; Biomaterials.; Tribology.; Corrosion and anti-corrosives.; Coatings.; Metals.; Materials Science.; Biomedical Engineering.; Metallic Materials.; Molecular Medicine.; Tribology, Corrosion and Coatings.

This book addresses the background and significance of the factors potentially influencing the clinical and biological outcomes of metal-on-metal hip implants. Metal-on-metal bearings were introduced and evaluated as an alternative to other bearing couples, particularly metal-on-polyethylene, due to...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part I: Introduction
• Chapter 1: Overview of Metal-on-Metal Implants
• Chapter 2: Bearing Surfaces for Joint Replacement: New Materials or New Problems?
• Part II: Clinical
• Chapter 3: Outcome Studies for Metal-on-Metal Bearings: What Evidence-Based Medicine Tells Us
• Chapter 4: Metal Reactivity: Its Influence on Primary and Revision Outcomes
• Chapter 5: Are metal ion levels a trigger for surgical intervention?
• Chapter 6: Metal Sensitivity: Is it possible to Determine Clinically?
• Part III: Biology
• Chapter 7: Wound healing, chronic inflammation, and immune responses
• Chapter 8: Benign Responses to Orthopaedic Implants: Really?
• Chapter 9: What does the Histology Tell Us?
• Part IV: Biomechanics
• Chapter 10: Why metal-on-metal -what laboratory tests have shown us
• Chapter 11: What do the Retrievals really tell us?
• Future Directions.- Index.