The Survival of Total Knee Arthroplasty: Current Data from Registries on Tribology: Review Article.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Polyethylene (PE) wear is a major contributor to implant loosening following total knee arthroplasty (TKA), and advanced bearings in TKA are being investigated with hopes of reducing or eliminate wear-related loosening. Currently, information on knee tribology is available from national joint registries and may be the best tools to evaluate the efficacy and safety of design innovations in joint arthroplasty.

Questions/purposes

We performed a review of national joint registries trying to answer the following questions: "Which is the main factor directly related to revisions rate in TKA?" and "Are there new bearing options better than conventional ones?"

Methods

A review was performed of all published annual reports of National Joint Registers, as well as of

SUBMITTER: Civinini R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5264570 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature