Today several million procedures of this type are conducted every year all over the world and more than half of them routinely use bone cements-and the proportion is increasing.
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According to the indictment, before the marketing program began, pilot studies showed the company that the bone cement reacted chemically with human blood in a test tube to cause blood clots.
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He studies the development of biomaterials from natural origin polymers and their possible biomedical applications, including bone replacement and fixation, drug delivery carriers, partially degradable bone cements and tissue engineering scaffolding.
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Too much active substance in the bone cement would actually be detrimental, because the mechanical stability of the fixed prosthesis is weakened by a high proportion of active substance in the cement.
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Effect of varying surface patterns on antibiotic elution from antibiotic-loaded bone cement / Bassam A Masri, Clive P Duncan, Christopher P Beauchamp, Nancy J Paris, Jennifer Arntorp . " The Journal of Arthroplasty"
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Subsequently they adapted a procedure used in people called cranioplasty, in which a plate, constructed using titanium mesh and bone cement is fixed to the back of the skull following a standard FMD procedure.
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Constantz said in an interview that no other calcium-phosphate-based bone cement had all the advantages of Norian SRS and that its superior strength made it suitable for repairing extensive bone damage caused by fractures or disease.
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In September 2003, Smith & Nephew recalled its Macrotextured Oxinium Profix and Genesis II knee implants because of reports that 30 people receiving the implants without bone cement had to undergo a replacement surgery after they became loose.
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Note 1 : In situ self-curing can be the source of released reagents that can cause local and / or systemic toxicity as in the case of the monomer released from methacrylics-based bone cement used in orthopedic surgery.
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The idea of injecting bone cement into crushed vertebrae originated with French doctors in the 1980s, but didn't catch on in the United States until it was described at a 1993 neuroradiology meeting, said Jensen, who heads the UVA interventional neuroradiology section.
