2.3 Hip Prosthesis Design

The origins of THA

The origins of THA


Cedric Bühler
Diese Lernkarten bieten eine grundlegende Einführung in den Entwurf von Hüftprothesen, mit Fokus auf Materialien wie Metall, Keramik und Titan, sowie auf Konzepte wie zementfreie und zementierte Implantate. Sie behandeln auch die Prinzipien der Belastungsübertragung, Verschleißmechanismen und die Bedeutung von Passform und Stabilität. Medizinstudenten und angehende Orthopäden profitieren von diesen Karteikarten, um die Grundlagen der Hüftprothesen-Designs zu verstehen und ihre Anwendung in der Praxis zu verbessern.
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Langue
Allemand
Catégorie
Médecine
Créé / Mis à jour
25.02.2013 / 08.03.2022

Cartes-fiches

01. What features of the external form of the cemented acetabular component interact with bone cement to facilitate fixation?

Grooves are machined into the outer surface.

On implantation, cement flows into these grooves providing a mechanical interllock often referred to as inteterigitation.

02. What does interdigitation mean?

What is necessary to ensure adequate interdigitation?

the cement must also interdigitate with the bone and can only be adequately achieved by sustained pressurisation of the cement at the time of cup insertion.

03. What is the potential consequence of failure to adequately pressurize bone cement in the presence of bleeding bone?

If the pressure is released too early in the polymersiation cycle, blood pressure within the bone will displace the cement and little or no interdigitation will be achieved.

04. What is considered the minimum acceptable cement mantle thickness over the entire implant surface?

minimum of 2mm of cement over the entire surface.

05. What feature of the Charnley PIJ and Ogee cups enhance cemented fixation?

to solve the problem about cement extrusion.

06. Polyethlene is invisble on x-ray. What feature of polyethylene cups enable the surgeon to visualise their position?

Equatorial and or polar x-ray marker wires are imbedded in the outer surface of the cup.

07. What types of fixation method are used in cementless acetabular components?

is achieved by bone ingrowth into a microporous structure applied to the outer surface of the shell - called Porocoat

08. The DePuy proprietary porous coating is called Porocoat.

What are the characteristics of this coating?

pore size is 100-400 microns (avg. 250 microns.

Volume porosity 40-50%

porosity increases from 20% to 87% at the surface

09. What form of biological fixation is achieved with the Hydroxyapatite coated implants?

The HA forms a biocompatible surface which encourages bone formation.

Gaps of up to 2mm between the implant and the host bone can be bridged as new bone is formed on the surface of the HA.

10. ??How does the thickness of Hydroxyaptite coating influence it's use in cemented hip arthroplasty?

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11. What is DuoFix?

combines HA and Porocoat to provide an osteo-inductive environment creating more extensive and rapid bone ingrowth.

12. Why might bone screws be used to fix a cementless acetabular compenent?

Where press-fit fixation cannot be achieved, some form of initial mechanical fixation must be used.

Bone screws are inserted into the pelvis through holes in the roof of the shell.

 

13. What is the potential disadvantage of screw holes in modular cementless acetabular cups?

How is this minimised?

Screw holes in the shell allow the ingress of polyethylene wear debris. This debris has been proven to cause osteolysis.

This hole can be closed by inserton using a titanium screw

14. Why is the internal surface of a hemispherical modular cementless shell highly polished?

to reduce the potential for wear debris generation from micro-motion between the liner and the shell.

15. How do hard bearing liner inserts transfer loads to the acetabular component?

Give one example.

Loads in the liner are transferred to the shell via the VIP taper, which also prevents liner rotation.

The liners are flat-topped and have smaller external radii than the internal shell radius; this prevents polar loading and maintains the load at the VIP taper interface.

16. What is the size range of the diameter of femoral heads.

Which is most commonly used?

cementless / cemented polyethylene: 22-26mm

comonly used = 28mm

17. What is the minimum recommended polyethylene bearing wall thickness below which it is likely to suffer fatigue wear?

6mm wall thickness

18. How does polyethylene wear debris production relate to head diameters, in metal/polythylene bearing couples.

(i.e. Volumetric wear)?

The larger sliding area (higher diameter), while reducing contact pressure, doees produce a greater volume of wear debris.

19. How does head diameter influence penetration rate in metal/polyethylene bearing couples (i.e. Linear wear)

small head, beuse of their higher contact presures tend to"burrow" into the cup.

Large heads: will help to reduce plastic deformation and fatigue wear of the polyethylene.

21. What might a limited range of motion cause?

  • thick neck diameter
  • lare head diameter
  • no Chamfer

22. When is a prosthetic hip most likely to sublux or dislocate?

Impingement is most likely to occur when the hip is

  • flexed
  • adducted
  • internally rotated

if movement continues = dislocate

23. How does increasing head size influence bearing couple stabiliy in total hip prosthesis?

by deepening the bearing 5.5mm into the cup and increasing the depth of the chamfer.

26. What is the pupose of offset

(=lateralized) modular cemetnless cup liners?

moves the acetabular centre of rotation laterally by 4mm from the standard or neutral position.

Used when acetabulum is unusually deep due to erosion and reduced tension of the surrounding soft tissues

27. What do "face changing" liners of modular cementless cups enable the surgeon to do?

allow to change the functional orientation of the shell by 10 or 20°.

When implanting a cementless shell the shell may have to be implanted more vertically

30. How do direct compression stems transmit loads to the femur?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of this method?

directly loads the femoral calcar.

+: loads the natural femur direct

-:balancing of loads is difficult and may change over time, stem can "toggle" and fragmenting the cement mantle

31. How are primary cementless stems designed to transmit weight bearing forces in the femur?

cementless stems are designed to transmit specific loads in specific areas.

transmit axial compression and torsion loads to the proximal femur to maintain proximal bone stock

32. What is the meaning of the "fit and fill" principle?

indicated for younger patients.

good bone stock

Type 1 or 2 femoral canals

?33. What is the meaning of the "fit and fill" principle?

2.3S96

The Summit stem is a cementless femoral prosthesis

==> distal fit, proximal fill

2/3 distal are passive

1/3 proximal is porous tri-planar wedge

34. What is Youngs Modulus of elasticity?

How is it defined?

The ability of material to resist deformation.

E= Stress / Strain

35. What are the most commonly used materials from which hip prosthesis stems are manufactured?

  1. Stainless steel
  2. Cobalt Chrome Alloy
  3. Titanium and its alloys

36. In terms of elasticity, how do Cobalt Chrome and Titanium Alloy compare?

How do they compare to that of bone?

Cobalt Chrom E= 230

Titanium E=106

Bone E= 7.25

 

43. What is the difference between Hydrostatic:

  1. Hydrostatic fluid film lubrication
  2. Hydrodynamic fluid film lubrication?

  1. Hydrostatic:high pressure into bearing
  2. Hadrodynamic: fluid film generated by the motion of bearing

44. Where Hydrodynamic fluid film lubrication exists what factors can influence the esstablishment and maintenance of the film?

  1. Squeeze pressure
  2. viscosity of th fluid

45. What is mixed lubrication?

A mixture of fluid film and boundary lubracation.

Happen when low viscosities or on high load.

48. Describe the five possible bearing couples used in total hip arthroplasty.

How do volumetric wear rates compare for a given head size?

  1. Metal head on polyethylene
  2. Ceramic head on polyethylene
  3. Ceramic on ceramic
  4. Metal on metal
  5. Ceramic head on metal

46. What type of lubrication is observed in synovitic joints?

Mixed lubrication

28. How can offset be increased in prosthetic hip stems?

head offset increases proportionally with stem sizes

additional set of high-offset stems with medially moved neck segment

  • +4 offset liner cup
  • Face-changing liner cup
  • reduce neck angle and increase neck lenght

42. What are

  1. friction
  2. boundary lubrication
  3. fluid film lubrication?

2.3S69

  1. resistance to relativ sliging movement of contacting surfaces
  2. no fluid in the contact area of the surfaces
  3. entrained layer of fluid film between contacting surfaces

25. What is the purpose of augmented polyethylene cups and liners (e.g. the "Chanley LPW" cup, or the "lipped liner")?

2.3-S65

increasing stability by increasing coverage of the head

To stabilise partially the joint against dislocate but not in the whole angle

Charnley: impingement points reduced posterior by 110°

Liner: snaped in, adjust the centre of rotation and restore appropriate soft tissue tension

37. Ceramic femoral heads are connected to the stems by tape coupling.

What are the reasons for this?

Metal Sleeves Taper Delta TS, wird für Revision verwendet. Wenn der Stem weiterverwendet wir, kann der Konus leicht beschädigt werden, und die Keramik köpfe dadurch kapput gehen

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