Main description:

This second edition of Joint Replacement Technology provides a thoroughly updated review of recent developments in joint replacement technology. Joint replacement is a standard treatment for joint degradation and has improved the quality of life of millions of patients. Collaboration between clinicians and researchers is critical to its continued success and to meet the rising expectations of patients and surgeons.

Part one introduces the advances in joint replacement technology, tribological considerations and experiments, and immune and regenerative responses to joint replacements. Part two covers the materials and techniques used in joint replacement. The advantages and disadvantages of different metals are explained here, as well as the use of ceramics. This section also addresses challenges in joint bearing surfaces, design, and cementless fixation techniques. Biological and mechanical issues are considered in part three, including healing responses to implants and biological causes of prosthetic joint failure, and a new chapter on imaging of joint prostheses. Each chapter in part four describes the clinical challenges of replacing specific joints, with specific focus on hip, knee, intervertebral disc joint, shoulder arthroplasty, elbow arthroplasty, and pyrocarbon small joint arthroplasty.

Thanks to its widespread collaboration and international contributors, Joint Replacement Technology is useful for materials scientists and engineers in both academia and biomedical industry. Chemists, clinicians, and other researchers in this area will also find it invaluable.

Contents:

Part I Introduction to joint replacement technology 1. Developments in joint replacement technology 2. Tribology in joint replacement 3. Biological and chemical influence on immune and regenerative response to joint replacements

Part II Materials and techniques in joint replacement 4. Metals for joint replacement 5. Ceramics for joint replacement 6. Joint bearing surfaces and replacement joint design 7. Cementless fixation techniques and challenges in joint replacement 8. Acrylic cements for bone fixation in joint replacement

Part III Biological and mechanical issues in joint replacement 9. The healing response to implants used in joint replacement 10. Biological causes of prosthetic joint failure 11. Failure mechanisms in joint replacement 12. Tribology and corrosion in hip joint replacements: materials and engineering 13. Imaging of joint prostheses

Part IV Replacing specific joints 14. Hip replacement: clinical perspectives 15. Knee replacement: clinical perspectives 16. Intervertebral disc joint replacement technology 17. The history of shoulder arthroplasty 18. Elbow arthroplasty 19. Pyrocarbon small joint arthroplasty of the extremities