Newly developed hip endoprostheses should provide a physiological load transfer to avoid resorptive bone remodelling with aseptic implant loosening. The presented study analysed the cortical strain pattern before and after implantation of three differently coated standard hip stems and modular revision hip stems using three stem extensions with differing stiffness (ESKA Implants, Germany). The tests were conducted with nine composite-femora (Sawbones Europe, Sweden) and one human femur simulating the resultant hip-force and important muscle forces. Significant stress-shielding was seen medially and laterally with every tested implant. The different coatings of the standard stems had no detectable influence on cortical strain pattern. The revision implants caused higher diaphyseal stress-shielding than the standard hip stems. The diaphyseal strain reduction depended significantly on the stiffness of the stem extension. Additional distal interlocking tended to result in higher stress-shielding. Creation of a proximal bone stock defect led to far-reaching strain reduction proximally and marked local strain changes around the screws. In the presented study revision stems with the most flexible extension caused the least difference to the standard stems and preoperative strain pattern. With respect to the massive strain changes in case of a femoral defect, from the clinical view, additional measures should be concerned (e.g. bone graft).
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Newly developed hip endoprostheses should provide a physiological load transfer to avoid resorptive bone remodelling with aseptic implant loosening. The presented study analysed the cortical strain pattern before and after implantation of three differently coated standard hip stems and modular revision hip stems using three stem extensions with differing stiffness (ESKA Implants, Germany). The tests were conducted with nine composite-femora (Sawbones Europe, Sweden) and one human femur simulatin...
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