The primary function of the knees has been affected, so that more and more patients seek medical treatment due to impairment of their functional capacity. Total knee arthroplasty is an effective surgical procedure in the ...

Prostheses are indicated when a member of the human body stops performing its function, whether by accident, illness or physical disability. To mitigate this situation, studies made with the aid of biomechanics, medicine ...

En este trabajo se realizó una investigación de las capacidades de ciertos materiales para la construcción de elementos biomédicos. Se destacan las bondades de los materiales seleccionados, los cuales son completamente ...

Titanium alloys are widely used in the biomedical field due to its excellent corrosion resistance in bodily fluids, high mechanical strength/density ratio, low elastic modulus and good biocompatibility. The most promising ...

New titanium alloys for biomedical applications have been developed primarily with the addition of Nb, Ta, Mo, and Zr, because those elements stabilize the β phase and they don’t cause cytotoxicity in the organism. The ...

Several 2D methods have been proposed to estimate WSS and OSI from PC-MRI, neglecting the longitudinal velocity gradients that typically arise in cardiovascular flow, particularly on vessel geometries whose cross section ...

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis is a skin infection which is commonly present in underdeveloped countries. The incidence is particularly high in amazonic countries of Latin-America like Brazil, Colombia and Perú and is usually ...