Early Failure Of Knee Replacements

This study investigated a series of Kinemax knee replacements where the survival rate was only 75% at nine years, compared with previously recorded rates of 96% over ten years and tried to ascertain the reason for the significantly lower survival rate. The authors discovered that on revision ‘the most striking feature was polyethylene wear’ on the implant and therefore undertook to have the removed implants independently anaylsed for abnormalities.

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Filed under: Bones on June 5th, 2009