FE PROBABILISTIC APPROACH TO DEFINE THE CLINICAL INDICATIONS OF A NEW PROXIMAL EPIPHYSEAL REPLACEMENT

Experience with conservative hip replacement has revealed a range of complications that do not affect traditional hip replacement. Strategies employed to minimise the risk of these complications has been to limit the use of resurfacing implants to younger and more active patients with optimal bone quality. The scope of the present work was to investigate a possible extension of the clinical indications for a new proximal femoral epiphyseal replacement that has been already pre-clinically validated [Taddei, 2007] in average conditions. This aim was pursued by means of a FE probabilistic analysis that addressed several patient and surgical variabilities.