Structural integrity of implanted WMT infinity hip and Osteonics Omnifit hip in fresh cadaveric femurs.
Five matched pairs of fresh human femurs were used to quantitatively assess the structural integrity of the implanted Wright Medical Technology modular Infinity hip and the Osteonics single-piece Omnifit hip. The results showed that neither bone implant system was able to recreate the femoral anteversion of the intact femur (p < 0.05). Although the micromotion at the bone-implant interface was well within the limits of achieving bone ingrowth, the axial micromotion was greater for the Infinity hip than for the Omnifit hip (p < 0.05), but the rotational micromotion did not show a significant difference between the two bone implant systems (p > 0.5). The anterior proximal femur deformation patterns were similar for both the two bone implant systems and intact femurs. However, the medial proximal femur deformation patterns showed that the Infinity hip-implanted femur was more similar to the intact femur than the Osteonics Omnifit hip-implanted femur.
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Department of PM&R, Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center, California 90822, USA.
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D002102:Cadaver; D005269:Femur; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008422:Materials Testing; D011180:Postmortem Changes