A 28-year clinical and radiological follow-up of alumina ceramic-on-crosslinked polyethylene total hip arthroplasty: a follow-up report and analysis of the oxidation of a shelf-aged acetabular component
- Submitting institution
-
The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- MECH-76
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
-
10.1302/0301-620X.99B10.BJJ-2017-0105.R1
- Title of journal
- Bone and Joint Journal
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 1286
- Volume
- 99-B
- Issue
- 10
- ISSN
- 2049-4394
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
6
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This study was a collaboration with clinicians and industry (Orthoplastics Ltd) and demonstrates a clinically important finding that polyethylene oxidation does not continue in vivo at the same rate it does when a component is not implanted (shelf-aged) over a significant (28 year) period. This is important confirmation that this type of polyethylene used in hip replacements (and implanted worldwide) will not significantly degrade over time, and feeds into on-going polyethylene development. This has led to an experimental simulator study to consider these phenomena in ‘modern’ polyethylene hip replacements (supported by DePuy Synthes RAEng Chair in Hip Technology, Williams).
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -
