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Department of Orthopaedics, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London, England.
We report 5 cases of severe failure of the polyethylene liner at 4 to 7.4 years after uncemented anatomic medullary locking (AML) total hip arthroplasty, using the acetabular cup system (ACS). The mode of failure was by a combination of wear-through to the metal backing and liner fracture. Four of the 5 cases were associated with a 32-mm head. The ACS design is flawed because of a lack of hemispherical geometry resulting in rim loading on a region of the liner that has the thinnest polyethylene. All patients with this type of implant should be monitored for evidence of excessive polyethylene wear.
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