Supported by The National Institutes of Health,No.R01HL147155 and No.R01AG060920.
BACKGROUND There is concern regarding potential long-term cardiotoxicity with systemic distribution of metals in total joint arthroplasty(TJA)patients.AIM To determine the association of commonly used implant metals w...
BACKGROUND Aseptic acetabular loosening can result from various factors that can be categorized into groups:patient-related,surgeon-related and implant-related.We present a case of a 63-year-old patient who at first u...
The debate on how best to manage patients with metal-on-metal(MOM) hip implants continues. With over 1 million patients affected worldwide, the impact is far reaching. The majority of the aggressive failures of MOM hi...
Metal debris from metal-on-metal (MoM) total hip arthroplasties (THA) has been suspected to cause periprosthetic heterotopic ossifications (HO). We determined the influence of disseminated cobalt, chromium and molybde...
Squeaking is a well-recognized complication for hardon-hard bearings.The nature of squeaking is not yet completely understood however it is considered a multifactorial phenomenon.Patient,implant,and surgical factors p...
The era of metal-on-metal(MoM) total hip arthroplasty has left the orthopaedic community with valuable insights and lessons on periprosthetic tissue reactions to metallic debris. Various terms have been used to descri...
Background: There is much interest regarding metal-on-metal implants in medical and general media. Much of this has been regarding failure of specific implant systems and metal ion toxicity. We present our early mid-t...
AIM: To track the short-term neck narrowing changes in Birmingham metal-on-metal hip resurfacing(MOMHR) patients. METHODS: Since 2001, the Center for Hip and Knee Replacement started a registry to prospectively collec...
The theoretical advantages of metal-on-metal(MOM)bearing couples in total hip arthroplasty(THA) have been recently balanced by concerns regarding adverse local and systemic effects. Higher than anticipated early revis...
Objective To compare gait patterns in patients with metal-on-metal resurfacing hip arthroplasty (RHA) and big-femoral-head total hip arthroplasty (BHA) at one year postoperatively.Methods From June 2006 to March 2009,...