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. 2014 Mar 27:97–123. doi: 10.1533/9780857092939.2.97

Table 5.2.

Antibiotics-eluting bone cements [89]

Product brand name Manufacturer Materials/antibacterial substance Clinical applications
Cobalt™ G-HV/Palacos® G Biomet Gentamicin/PMMA bone cement Arthroplasty
DePuy 1 Depuy Gentamicin/PMMA bone cement Arthroplasty
Cemex® Genta Exactech Gentamicin/bone cement Fixation of prostheses to living bone for use in the second stage of a two-stage revision for total joint arthroplasty after the initial infection has been cleared
VersaBond™ AB Smith & Nephew Gentamicin/polymer powder and monomer liquid Fixation of prostheses to living bone for use in the second stage of a two-stage revision for total joint arthroplasty after the initial infection has been cleared
Simplex® P Stryker Orthopedics Tobramycin / 75% methyl Methacrylate–styrene–copolymer/ 15% polymethyl-methacrylate/10% barium sulfate Fixation of prostheses to living bone for
use in the second stage of two-stage revision for total joint arthroplasty after the initial infection has been cleared.