Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Evolution of External Intelligent Knee Prosthesis: From Passive to Active through Variable Compliance Actuation
(Rafael R. Torrealba, Samuel B. Udelman, José Cappelletto, Leonardo Fermín, Gerardo Fernández-López, Juan C. Grieco, Lilibeth A. Zambrano, Gabriel Messingher and Eliane Andara, Mechatronics and Biomechanics Research Groups, Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, Venezuela)
The use of Finite Element Modeling to Improve Biomechanical Research on Knee Prosthesis
(Silvia Pianigiani and Bernardo Innocenti, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milano, Italy, and others)
Development of Mechanical Polycentric Knee Prosthesis: Introducing a Methodological Approach
(Belkys T. Amador, Rafael R. Torrealba, Carmen M. Müller-Karger, Biomechanics Research Group, Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, Venezuela, and others)
Complex Procedure for Evaluating and Predicting the Wear of a Total Knee Prosthesis Tibial Tray
(Lucian Capitanu, Luige Vladareanu, Constantin Tiganesteanu, Institute of Solid Mechanics of Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania, Virgil Florescu, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest and Liliana-Laura Badita, National Institute for Research and Development in Mechatronics and Measurement Technique, Bucharest)
Screening and Decolonization of MRSA among Knee Joint Arthroplasty Patients: Efficacy, Cost-effectiveness and Durability
(E. Carlos Rodriguez-Merchan, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain)
Patient Specific Instrument in Total Knee Arthroplasty
(Daniele Mazza, Raffaele Iorio, Matteo Guzzini, Edoardo Monaco, Fabio Conteduca, Andrea Ferretti, Orthopaedic Unit and “Kirk Kilgour” Sports Injury Centre, S. Andrea Hospital, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy)
Index