Kinetics of Elution of Gentamicin from a Gentamicin-Loaded PMMA Bone Cement - World Journal of Engineering and Technology

WJET > Vol.7 No.3, August 2019

Kinetics of Elution of Gentamicin from a Gentamicin-Loaded PMMA Bone Cement ()

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DOI: 10.4236/wjet.2019.73031 484 Downloads 1,294 Views

Author(s)

Gladius Lewis^*, Li Li

Affiliation(s)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA.

ABSTRACT

Antibiotic-loaded poly (methyl methacrylate) bone cement (ALBC) is widely used for anchoring joint replacements as a means of reducing the potential for peri-prosthetic joint infection (primary cases) and treating a patient who has an infected joint replacement (revision cases). One shortcoming of the cement is the high maximum exothermic temperature experienced upon polymerization (T_max), a phenomenon that, it has been postulated, may cause or be implicated in thermal necrosis of peri-prosthetic tissues. There are many reports in the literature on methods of reducing T_max, with one such study involving the addition of a phase change material (microencapsulated paraffin) (MEPAR) to the cement powder or adding a chain-stopping chemical (1-dodecyl mercaptan) (DDM) to the liquid. In that report, the results of gentamicin elution tests were presented. In the present work, those results were used to calculate various indices of gentamicin elution kinetics, namely 1) diffusion coefficient (D_gent); and 2) values of the coefficients in four equations that are widely used to model antibiotic elution from ALBCs. We found 1) the difference in D_gent of either a MEPAR- or DDM-containing formulation, on the one hand, and that of the control cement, on the other, was not significant; and 2) a consistent trend in the value of only one coefficient in one of the four model equations, with this change suggesting insignificant difference in gentamicin elution mechanism between an experimental cement formulation and the control cement. The implications of these findings for guiding selection of additives that simultaneously produce significant reduction of T_max but minimal effect on gentamicin elution kinetics are discussed. This guide is a novel contribution to the literature.

KEYWORDS

Poly (Methyl Methacrylate) Bone Cement, Gentamicin, Elution, Diffusion Coefficient, Kinetics Models

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Lewis, G. and Li, L. (2019) Kinetics of Elution of Gentamicin from a Gentamicin-Loaded PMMA Bone Cement. World Journal of Engineering and Technology, 7, 418-428. doi: 10.4236/wjet.2019.73031.

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