Why would cement porosity reduction be clinically irrelevant, while experimental data show the contrary

Journal of Orthopaedic Research - Tập 23 - Trang 691-697 - 2005
D. Janssen1, J. Stolk1, N. Verdonschot1
1Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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AbstractLaboratory bench tests have shown that porosity reduction increases the fatigue life of bone cement specimens. Clinically, however, the effect porosity reduction is subject to debate. We hypothesized that the discrepancy between clinical and experimental findings is related to differences in the stress distribution, which is typically uniform in experimental test specimens, while stress concentrations exist in cement around hip implants. We simulated fatigue failure of cement in a finite element model of an experimental test specimen and of a transverse slice of a total hip arthroplasty with a sharp‐cornered stem. Four levels of porosity were introduced. In the fatigue test specimen model, the fatigue life clearly was dependent on the level of porosity, while in the transverse slice model, the level of porosity had virtually no effect on failure of the cement mantle. The results of the simulations confirmed our hypothesis. In simulations of laboratory tests, pores clearly acted as crack initiators, while in the simulation of a real total hip reconstruction, crack formation was governed by local stress singularities. This explains why the beneficial effect of cement porosity reduction on the lifetime of total hip reconstructions may be hard to detect clinically. © 2005 Orthopaedic Research Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Tập 23

691-697

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