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01-08-2010 | Clinical Research

Immunologic Adverse Reaction Associated with Low-carbide Metal-on-metal Bearings in Total Hip Arthroplasty

Authors: Panagiotis Aroukatos, MD, Maria Repanti, MD, PhD, Thomas Repantis, MD, Vassiliki Bravou, MD, Panagiotis Korovessis, MD, PhD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 8/2010

Abstract

Background

An increased incidence of periprosthetic osteolysis, resulting in loss of biologic fixation, has been reported in contemporary THAs with low-carbide metal-on-metal compared with metal-on-polyethylene couple bearings. Although a hypersensitivity reaction attributable to Co and Cr debris is reportedly a potential cause for failure of THAs with high-carbide bearings, there are no evidence-based data for this reaction in low-carbide metal-on-metal bearings, although such hypersensitivity might be related to osteolysis.

Questions/purposes

We investigated whether there were differences in immunologic hypersensitivity reactions in retrievals from revised THAs with ceramic-on-polyethylene versus metal-on-metal bearing couples.

Patients and Methods

We compared newly formed capsule and periprosthetic interface membranes from revision surgery for aseptic failure from 20 patients with low-carbide bearings and 13 patients with ceramic-on-polyethylene bearings. For control tissue, we obtained samples from the hip capsule during the primary THA implantation in 13 patients with low-carbide bearings and seven with ceramic-on-polyethylene bearings. We examined the tissues with conventional histologic and immunohistochemical methods.

Results

Compared with tissue from the control subjects and patients with ceramic-on-polyethylene bearings, the tissues from patients with low-carbide metal-on-metal bearings were associated with (1) extensive necrosis and fibrin exudation in the newly formed hip capsule and (2) diffuse and perivascular lymphocytic infiltration of a higher degree than in the hips with ceramic-on-polyethylene bearings in conventional histologic examination, and (3) more T than B cells.

Conclusions

The conventional histologic and immunohistochemical findings in tissues retrieved from failed THAs with low-carbide metal-on-metal bearings are consistent with a link between hypersensitivity and osteolysis with low-carbide bearing couples.

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Title: Immunologic Adverse Reaction Associated with Low-carbide Metal-on-metal Bearings in Total Hip Arthroplasty
Authors: Panagiotis Aroukatos, MD
Maria Repanti, MD, PhD
Thomas Repantis, MD
Vassiliki Bravou, MD
Panagiotis Korovessis, MD, PhD
Publication date: 01-08-2010
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 8/2010
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-009-1187-x

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Immunologic Adverse Reaction Associated with Low-carbide Metal-on-metal Bearings in Total Hip Arthroplasty

Abstract

Background

Questions/purposes

Patients and Methods

Results

Conclusions

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Abstract

Background

Questions/purposes

Patients and Methods

Results

Conclusions

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