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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020.
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© IMechE 2020. Despite the encouraging short- and medium-term clinical results and increased usage of reverse shoulder replacements, a higher revision rate is documented compared with other major joint arthroplasties. Adverse reaction to polyethylene wear debris is still an important factor which may influence the long-term survival of reverse shoulder arthroplasty. To date, only a small number of retrieval studies of reverse shoulder arthroplasty have reported the different damage modes on polyethylene components, but none have quantified the ex vivo surface roughness on both articulating surfaces. The main purpose of this study was to assess, for the first time, the surface roughness of 13 retrieved metal-on-polyethylene reverse shoulder replacements using a white light profilometre with nanometre resolution. Although no significant relationship was observed between the surface roughness values and patient variables, it was noted that half of the polyethylene components still showed their original machining marks, indicating little change in vivo and that the metallic humeral components in the reversed design configuration showed low values of surface roughness after their time in vivo.
Author(s): Ramirez-Martinez I, Stea S, Joyce TJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine
Year: 2020
Volume: 234
Issue: 12
Pages: 1353-1362
Print publication date: 01/12/2020
Online publication date: 01/07/2020
Acceptance date: 28/05/2020
Date deposited: 11/08/2020
ISSN (print): 0954-4119
ISSN (electronic): 2041-3033
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0954411920935757
DOI: 10.1177/0954411920935757
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