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List of works by Saverio Affatato

A Critical Analysis of TKR In Vitro Wear Tests Considering Predicted Knee Joint Loads

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

A computerized system for radiographical evaluation in total hip arthroplasty

scientific article published on 01 April 1995

A new protocol for wear testing of total knee prostheses from real joint kinematic data: Towards a scenario of realistic simulations of daily living activities.

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A new protocol from real joint motion data for wear simulation in total knee arthroplasty: stair climbing.

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Advanced nanocomposite materials for orthopaedic applications. I. A long-term in vitro wear study of zirconia-toughened alumina.

scientific article published in July 2006

Alumina-on-alumina hip implants: A wear study of retrieved components

scientific article published on 01 January 2012

An easy technique to digest and isolate UHMWPE wear particles from a hip joint simulator.

scientific article published in May 2004

An in vitro investigation of diamond-like carbon as a femoral head coating

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Bi-unicondylar knee prosthesis functional assessment utilizing force-control wear testing

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Bi-unicondylar knee replacement laxity with changes to simulated soft tissue constraints

scientific article published in January 2013

Burst Strength of BIOLOX®delta Femoral Heads and Its Dependence on Low-Temperature Environmental Degradation

scientific article published on 12 January 2020

Ceramic-on-metal for total hip replacement: mixing and matching can lead to high wear

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

Combined effect of the body mass index and implant size on the wear of retrieved total knee prostheses.

scientific article published on 2 July 2014

Combined wear behavior and long-term implant-bone fixation of total knee replacement: a novel in vitro set-up.

scientific article published on May 2010

Comparison of Meshing Strategies in THR Finite Element Modelling

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Development of a Novel in Silico Model to Investigate the Influence of Radial Clearance on the Acetabular Cup Contact Pressure in Hip Implants

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Displacement or Force Control Knee Simulators? Variations in Kinematics and in Wear

scientific article published on 06 July 2015

Does cyclic stress and accelerated ageing influence the wear behavior of highly crosslinked polyethylene?

scientific article published on 2 March 2016

Does the Hirsch Index Improve Research Quality in the Field of Biomaterials? A New Perspective in the Biomedical Research Field

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Does the addition of vitamin E to conventional UHMWPE improve the wear performance of hip acetabular cups? Micro-Raman characterization of differently processed polyethylene acetabular cups worn on a hip joint simulator

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Does the body mass index influence the long-term survival of unicompartmental knee prostheses? A retrospective multi-centre study

scientific article published on 13 November 2018

Double-Incision Approach and Early Rehabilitation in a Complicated Bicondylar Tibial Plateau Fracture: A Case Report

scientific article published on 26 April 2017

Effect of head surface roughness and sterilization on wear of UHMWPE acetabular cups.

scientific article published in September 2009

Finite Element Simulations of Hard-On-Soft Hip Joint Prosthesis Accounting for Dynamic Loads Calculated from a Musculoskeletal Model during Walking.

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How to measure wear following total hip arthroplasty.

scientific article published on 29 May 2013

In Silico Optimization of Femoral Fixator Position and Configuration by Parametric CAD Model

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

In Vitro versus In Vivo Phase Instability of Zirconia-Toughened Alumina Femoral Heads: A Critical Comparative Assessment.

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In vitro effects on mobile polyethylene insert under highly demanding daily activities: stair climbing.

scientific article published on 14 December 2014

In vitro wear performance of standard, crosslinked, and vitamin-E-blended UHMWPE

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Integrated friction measurements in hip wear simulations: short-term results

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Is ceramic-on-ceramic squeaking phenomenon reproducible in vitro? A long-term simulator study under severe conditions

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Is micro-computed tomography useful for wear assessment of ceramic femoral heads? A preliminary evaluation of volume measurements.

scientific article published on 14 September 2016

Knee Wear Assessment: 3D Scanners Used as a Consolidated Procedure

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Leg length measurement: a new method to assure the correct leg length in total hip arthroplasty.

scientific article published in July 2000

Materials for Hip Prostheses: A Review of Wear and Loading Considerations

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May the surface roughness of the retrieved femoral head influence the wear behavior of the polyethylene liner?

scientific article published on 25 July 2015

Meniscal wear at a three-component total ankle prosthesis by a knee joint simulator.

scientific article published on 2 October 2006

Micro X-Ray Computed Tomography Mass Loss Assessment of Different UHMWPE: A Hip Joint Simulator Study on Standard vs. Cross-Linked Polyethylene

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Microseparation and stripe wear in alumina-on-alumina hip implants

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Mixed oxides prosthetic ceramic ball heads. Part 1: effect of the ZrO2 fraction on the wear of ceramic on polythylene joints

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

Mixed oxides prosthetic ceramic ball heads. Part 3: effect of the ZrO2 fraction on the wear of ceramic on ceramic hip joint prostheses. A long-term in vitro wear study.

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Mixed-oxides prosthetic ceramic ball heads. Part 2: effect of the ZrO2 fraction on the wear of ceramic on ceramic joints

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

Mixing and matching in ceramic-on-metal hip arthroplasty: an in-vitro hip simulator study

scientific article published on 15 September 2009

Mobile or fixed unicompartmental knee prostheses? In-vitro wear assessments to solve this dilemma.

scientific article published on 26 June 2011

Mobile-bearing total knee arthroplasty: a full traumatic rotation of 180°.

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New Challenges in Tribology: Wear Assessment Using 3D Optical Scanners

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On the roughness measurement on knee prostheses.

scientific article published on 19 December 2014

Polyethylene insert damage in unicondylar knee replacement: a comparison of in vivo function and in vitro simulation.

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Pre-clinical validation of joint prostheses: a systematic approach

scientific article published on 12 March 2008

Predictive role of the lambda ratio in the evaluation of metal-on-metal total hip replacement.

scientific article published in July 2008

Progression of osteoarthritis and reoperation in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: A comparison of national joint registries

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Quantification of Wear and Deformation in Different Configurations of Polyethylene Acetabular Cups Using Micro X-ray Computed Tomography

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

Radiological identification of Zweymüller-type femoral stem prosthesis in revision cases

scientific article published on 29 February 2016

Raman and Photoemission Spectroscopic Analyses of Explanted Biolox® Delta Femoral Heads Showing Metal Transfer

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Registry study on failure incidence in 1,127 revised hip implants with stem trunnion re-use after 10 years of follow-up: limited influence of an adapter sleeve

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

Reliability assessment in advanced nanocomposite materials for orthopaedic applications.

scientific article published on 2 November 2010

Retrieval analysis of three generations of Biolox® femoral heads: spectroscopic and SEM characterisation

scientific article published on 09 April 2012

Sodium-azide versus ProClin 300: influence on the morphology of UHMWPE particles generated in laboratory tests.

scientific article published in February 2004

Surface characterization and debris analysis of ceramic pairings after ten million cycles on a hip joint simulator

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

The biomaterials challenge: A comparison of polyethylene wear using a hip joint simulator.

scientific article published on 12 August 2015

The performance of gamma- and EtO-sterilised UHMWPE acetabular cups tested under severe simulator conditions. Part 2: wear particle characteristics with isolation protocols.

scientific article published in October 2003

The performance of gamma- and EtO-sterilised UHWMPE acetabular cups tested under severe simulator conditions. Part 1: role of the third-body wear process.

scientific article published in December 2002

The predictive power of surface profile parameters on the amount of wear measured in vitro on metal-on-polyethylene artificial hip joints.

scientific article published in April 2006

Thermomechanical analysis of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene-metal hip prostheses.

scientific article published in August 2007

Toward the interpretation of the combined effect of size and body weight on the tribological performance of total knee prostheses.

scientific article published on 26 February 2014

Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene: Influence of the Chemical, Physical and Mechanical Properties on the Wear Behavior. A Review

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Unicompartmental knee prostheses: in vitro wear assessment of the menisci tibial insert after two different fixation methods.

scientific article published on 29 August 2008

Wear Behaviours and Oxidation Effects on Different UHMWPE Acetabular Cups Using a Hip Joint Simulator

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

Wear Distribution Detection of Knee Joint Prostheses by Means of 3D Optical Scanners

scientific article published on 30 March 2017

Wear Simulation of Ceramic-on-Crosslinked Polyethylene Hip Prostheses: A New Non-Oxide Silicon Nitride versus the Gold Standard Composite Oxide Ceramic Femoral Heads

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

Wear behaviour in total ankle replacement: a comparison between an in vitro simulation and retrieved prostheses.

scientific article published on 29 July 2009

Wear behaviour of cross-linked polyethylene assessed in vitro under severe conditions.

scientific article published in June 2005

Wear of Metal-on-Metal Hip Bearings: Metallurgical Considerations after Hip Simulator Studies

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Wear performance of neat and vitamin E blended highly cross-linked PE under severe conditions: The combined effect of accelerated ageing and third body particles during wear test.

scientific article published on 5 August 2016

Wear simulation of total knee prostheses using load and kinematics waveforms from stair climbing.

scientific article published on 21 September 2015