Determinants of stress shielding: design versus materials versus interface.

Experimental studies of cementless porous-coated total hip arthroplasty indicate that a critical design variable for femoral remodeling is stem stiffness. In the long term (two years) in the canine model, other variables, including the presence, type, and placement of the porous coating, did not significantly affect the pattern of bone remodeling when tested with metallic stems. The basic pattern of bone remodeling was characterized by proximal cortical atrophy, and distal cortical and medullary bone hypertrophy. In the short term (six months), the use of low-stiffness stems altered this pattern, leading to reduced proximal bone loss, increased proximal medullary bone hypertrophy, and no distal cortical hypertrophy, suggesting that stem stiffness had a profound effect on stress shielding.

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