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Total joint replacement and aseptic loosening

open access: yes, 2006
Konttinen, Y.T.   +15 more
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Is Aseptic Loosening Truly Aseptic?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 2005
Surgeons who treat osteomyelitis or infected implants think that microorganisms can live on and around implanted biomaterials and necrotic bone without clinical manifestations of infection. Gristina and Costerton, in their seminal work, suggested that such bacteria persist within biofilms and that they are often overlooked when diagnosis is based on ...
Carl L, Nelson   +4 more
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Biofilms and Aseptic Loosening

2008
Orthopaedic implants play a remarkable role in maintaining health and mobility. Unfortunately, implanted orthopaedic devices sometimes fail owing to a variety of factors, one of the most important of which is bacterial infection. However, in a significant proportion of cases, failure can not be clearly attributed to infection based primarily on the ...
Mark S. Smeltzer   +2 more
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[Is aseptic loosening of joint prostheses aseptic?]

Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego, 2022
The observed changes in the periarticular space may be caused by both mechanical action and biological reactions. Periprosthetic infections are the most common cause of loosening and destructive changes in the joints, however, the diagnosis of an aseptic reaction is not always fully obvious.
Alicja, Baranowska   +4 more
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