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By E. Bogir. Central Pennsylvania College.

The studies carried out in patients undergoing total endoprosthetic replacement of the hip joint with metal prosthesis and stabilized by acrylic bone cement pointed to statistically signifi- cant changes in the blood clotting and fibrinolysis systems purchase trecator sc 250mg on-line. It was reported that monomer or polymer release causes a tendency toward hypercoagulation and intravascular clotting. Fibrinoly- sis activation associated with these changes is secondary, resulting from, among others, the mechanism of the action of free fibrin monomers. Bone cement affects the activity of lysosomal enzymes in peripheral blood granulocytes. It was reported that after the endoprosthesis stabilization operation, statistically significant changes occur in the activity of lysosomal marker enzymes. Lability of lysosomal membranes appears with permeation of hydrolases into superna- tant. The release of monomer may cause some fatality, and therefore surgeons and anesthesia experts should take precautions to protect the patient. After few minutes of the cement applica- tion, the toxic effect vanishes. BONE CEMENT MIXING METHODS Bone cement mixing methods are categorized as manual (or hand) mixing, centrifugation, vac- uum mixing, and combined mechanical mixing. In manual mixing, the powder component is added to the liquid (which may or may not have been chilled to a temperature that is usually between 15 and 6 C) in a polymeric (usually polypropylene or polyethylene) bowl. Then these components are stirred with a polypropylene or polyethylene spatula with a speed of 1 or 2 Hz for 45–120 s. In centrifugation mixing the hand-mixed dough is immediately poured into a syringe (from which the nozzle is detached) that is then promptly placed in a centrifuge and spun with a speed of 2300–4000 rpm for 30–180 s [84–86]. Applying vacuum to self-setting acrylic cements was first described in dentistry, but Lid- gren et al. They analyzed the mechanical strength of high- and low-viscosity gentamicin-containing cements by using three different mixing procedures: hand, vibration, and vacuum stirring. They reported that, vacuum mixing improved the flexural and compression strength and the modulus of elasticity by 15–30, especially for high-viscosity cement. The fatigue life was ten times longer after vacuum mixing.

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