Prosthesis and infection: problem in bionics era

Grand Challenges in Bionics

“Bionics” as an inter-science discipline officially dates back to 1958 when Major J. E. Steele coined the term making reference to a research program at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH, USA. Steele (1960) used the term bionics to mean “a like-life system that copies some functions and characteristics of a natural system.” A similar term, biomimetics, was coined by Schmitt (196...

acute and chronic maxillary sinusitis (nonodontogenic infection)

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Prosthesis-patient mismatch in the transcatheter aortic valve replacement era.

In an insightful report in 1978, Rahimtoola (1) pointed to the fact that “mismatch can be considered to be present when the effective prosthetic valve area, after insertion into the patient, is less than that of a normal human valve.” He recognized that most patients have some residual aortic stenosis after aortic valve replacement and suggested that moderate or severe residual aortic stenosis ...

Pathogenesis of prosthesis-related infection.

In spite of its incidence decreasing to 1% nowadays, prosthesis-related infection remains a research, diagnostic, therapeutic and cost-related problem. It can be defined as a presence of bacteria in the artificial joint space, which is significantly associated with evident laboratory and/or tissue markers, and clinical signs of running infection. We believe that the more precise understanding o...

Special section on medical bionics.