PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the correlation between microleakage and screw loosening at different types of implant-abutment connections and/or geometries measuring the torque values before and after the leakage tests. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three different abutment types (Intenal hex titanium, internal hex zirconium, morse tapered titaniuım) with different geometries were connected to...

BACKGROUND The data on seventeen patients with rheumatoid arthritis who had been managed with ipsilateral total shoulder and elbow arthroplasties were analyzed to determine whether the operative technique, the presence of total shoulder and total elbow prostheses in the same upper extremity, or complications of the arthroplasties affected the result in each joint or the overall functional outco...

BACKGROUND Stemless humeral head replacement represents a young generation of shoulder arthroplasty. This study evaluated the differences of this new stemless design compared with the fourth-generation standard stemmed design. METHODS Total shoulder arthroplasty was performed in 20 patients with a stemless shoulder prosthesis (group 1) and in 20 patients with a standard stem humeral head repl...

BACKGROUND Hydroxyapatite (HA) is the main inorganic component of bone, and HA coating is widely used on acetabular cups in hip arthroplasty. It has been suggested that this surface finish improves cup survival. METHODS All patients registered in the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register between 1992 and 2007 with an uncemented acetabular implant that was available either with or without HA coati...

We report the clinical and radiological outcome of 111 primary Taperloc hip arthroplasties implanted with Boneloc bone cement and the effect of stem size on survival. The mean follow-up was 5.3 years (range 3.2-6.6 years). The average age of the patients at operation was 73.4 years. Twenty-seven were male and 84 female. We defined clinical failures as those who had revision for aseptic loosenin...

We used a trochanteric slide osteotomy (TSO) in 94 consecutive revision total hip arthroplasties (90 with replacement of both the cup and stem). This technique proved to be adequate for removing the components, with few complications (two minor fractures), and for implanting acetabular allografts (18%) and reinforcement devices (23%). Trochanteric union was obtained in most patients (96%), even...

The calcar femorale is a vertical plate of bone lying deep to the lesser trochanter and is formed as a result of traction of the iliopsoas which separates the femoral cortex into two distinct layers, the calcar femorale and the medial femoral cortex. They fuse together proximally to form the medial femoral neck. A stem placed centrally will abut against the calcar femorale with little or no spa...

A retrospective analysis of 893 consecutive periprosthetic femoral fractures treated between 1976 and 2001 shows that component exchange with reimplantation of a cemented long-stem implant can be considered a reliable method of treatment with good functional results and low rates of complications (10%) and revision (7.5%). The possibility of increasing the degree of weight bearing postoperative...