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ArticleActa ortopedica brasileira

EVALUATION OF A BONE REINFORCEMENT TECHNIQUE USING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS.

Anderson Freitas, Lucas Carreiro DA Silva, Nathan Drumond Vasconcelos Godinho, Amirhossein Farvardin, Mehran Armand, Ana Patrícia DE Paula

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Article in Acta ortopedica brasileira. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Anderson Freitas. Hospital Ortopédico e Medicina Especializada, Brasília, DF, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-6555-8193
Lucas Carreiro DA Silva. Hospital Regional do Gama, Brasília, DF, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-0006-8139
Nathan Drumond Vasconcelos Godinho. Hospital Regional do Gama, Brasília, DF, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-3987-5635
Amirhossein Farvardin. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6567-7536
Mehran Armand. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1947-9846
Ana Patrícia DE Paula. Postgraduate program, Fundação de Ensino e Pesquisa em Ciências da Saúde (FEPECS), Brasília, DF, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-3809-2230
Hospital de Base · BRJohns Hopkins University · USFundação Estadual de Produção e Pesquisa em Saúde · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo compare the results of a simulated fall on the greater trochanter in the proximal portion of a synthetic femur before and after femoral reinforcement with tricalcium phosphate bone cement (TP) and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), using finite element analysis (FEA).

methodsUsing two synthetic proximal femurs, a FEA simulating a fall on the greater trochanter was performed, using the Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO) program. For this analysis, the femurs were filled with TP and PMMA after perforations were created in the trochanteric region and neck. The results were compared with the strength values obtained from testing the control specimen, a synthetic bone without reinforcement.

resultsFEA showed a value of 600 N prior to reinforcement. After cementing with PMMA, the load increased by 57.5% (945 N), and by 53% (920 N) after cementing with TP.

conclusionSynthetic femurs gained resistance to fracture-causing forces in a simulated fall on the trochanter after bone reinforcement with PMMA and TP. Level of Evidence III; Experimental study.

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Femoral fracturesHipOsteoporosis

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PMID29977147
PMCPMC6025497
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