The wear of articulation component and influence on aseptic loosening

Abstract

The loosening and other complications of total joint replacement are important problems of modern orthopedics. The reason is the massive expansion of the application total arthroplasties, which subsequently moved to center stage revision procedures of these total replacements.

Keywords

• polyethylene
• UHMWPE
• cross-linking
• arthroplasty
• total hip arthroplasty
• oxidative degradation
• vitamin E
• sequential irradiation
• total joint replacements