Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research
STUDY OF EVALUATION OF VARIOUS CAUSES FOR IMPLANT FAILURE IN ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA PATIENTS
Venugopala Reddy Pondugula, Balakrishna Bathina, Sravya Lingala3, Lalitha Naga Durga Malladi, Yachendra Kumar Reddy Sura, Ramireddy Mettu, Amarnath Surath
JCDR. 2023: 1130-1138
Abstract
The success of an implant depends on various factors and it is vital to assess whether implant failure was inherent to the device or occurred due to external factors like lack of patient cooperation in post-operative care, improper application, or rate of fracture healing. The removal of failed implants is expensive and imposes significant mental hardship on the patient. Also, these revision surgeries are demanding, and time consuming. Studies on implant failures in developing countries like India are less. Hence, we conducted this study with an aim of knowing various factors responsible for the failure of implants used in fracture fixation.
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