Adverse Local Tissue Reaction and Osteolysis After Ceramic-on-Ceramic Total Hip Arthroplasty
Yogen Thever, Lynne Goh, Sam Fong Yau Li, Dahlia Ho Siu Ling, Sean Yi Rong Chia, Moo Ing How · 2024
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Description
Yogen Thever and co-authors wrote a case report from 2024 on a hip replacement that failed in a way ceramic bearings were not supposed to allow. Harmful tissue reactions and bone loss around a joint implant are known troubles of metal-on-metal hips. Ceramic-on-ceramic pairs were meant to be inert by contrast. The patient, fifty-four years old, came back seventeen years after his first hip replacement with exactly those troubles around a ceramic joint.
The team worked through an unusually deep set of tests to pin down the cause, going beyond what earlier reports had done. Their conclusion is plain: ceramic bearings are not wholly inert. They can, on rare occasions, stir the same tissue reaction and bone eating seen with metal pairs. Surgeons who meet late pain or loosening around a ceramic hip, the authors imply, should keep this cause on the list.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yogen Thever, Lynne Goh, Sam Fong Yau Li, Dahlia Ho Siu Ling, Sean Yi Rong Chia, Moo Ing How |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |