Affiliation:
1. SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India
Abstract
After total hip arthroplasty (THA), high demands occur in the femoral fixation, especially for elderly patients due to periprosthetic fractures. Fractures happened in the femur after THA was classified based on Vancouver periprosthetic femoral fracture. Choosing the fixation for these types of specific fracture types are challenging due to pattern and orientation of the fracture in the THA prosthesis. Several researchers have reported the clinical, experimental, and computational studies about the failure of fixation methods, and they highlighted the remedies and scope in the further studies. Most of the authors recommended the computational studies having the advantage to predict the inner behaviour of the bone because invivo/invitro study availability of the specimen are limited and it needs ethical clearance. The current study focussed on computational studies in periprosthetic fractures and aims to discuss the three dimensional model creation, mesh generation, material properties, boundary conditions/loading, limitation, opinions, and future thoughts in implant design.