WO1981002667A1 - Antimicrobial surgical implants - Google Patents

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WO1981002667A1
WO1981002667A1 PCT/GB1981/000058 GB8100058W WO8102667A1 WO 1981002667 A1 WO1981002667 A1 WO 1981002667A1 GB 8100058 W GB8100058 W GB 8100058W WO 8102667 A1 WO8102667 A1 WO 8102667A1
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  • the present invention relates to surgical implants for the human or animal body and provides a manner of rendering such implants antimicrobial.
  • the invention has particular, but not exclusive, application to endoprosthetic implants, especially orthopaedic implants.
  • the term "surgical implant” means any inanimate article (including a device) which is to be surgically implanted in the human or animal body for a prolonged period.
  • said term includes, for example, orthopaedic pins, plates and screws, tracheotomy tubes, artificial joints, artificial pacemakers, catheters, sutures and clips.
  • References to "endoprosthetic implants” include the entire implant, parts thereof and fixing means therefor. Thus, in this Specification (including the Claims thereof, fixing pins and screws for use with endoprosthetic devices are included within the term “endoprosthetic implant”.
  • orthopaedic implants include ceramic and carbon-based materials and some synthetic plastics materials such as ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene, some forms of nylon, polymethylmethacrylate and silicone elastomers. None of these materials have fulfilled entirely the aim of bioinertness (i.e. bioinactivity) in all circumstances, but in general the attempt has been towards the use of more fully inert materials to prevent as far as possible any interaction in vivo. The search for materials of greater bioinertness for use in surgical implants continues without diminution.
  • silver was employed in the manufacture of endoprosthetic implants.
  • silver wire, silver plates and silverplated screws were used in bone repair surgery and tracheotomy tubes were silver plated.
  • the use of silver and silver plated implants had generally ceased by about 1935 in the ever continuing search for greater bioinertness for implant materials.
  • silver was, and still is, considered to be unacceptable as an implant material, because of poor mechanical properties, connective tissue reaction and excessive subperiosteal bone growth (see, for example, Venable et al, Ann. Surg. 105, 917-938, 1937)
  • Silver was one of the first metals known to man. Silver artifacts have been found in tombs dating to 4,000 B.C.
  • silver needles have traditionally been used in acupuncture, which is one of the oldest forms of invasive medical treatment.
  • the antimicrobial properties of silver compounds have been recognized for about 100 years.
  • the first report of silver compounds for pharmaceutical use is that of aqueous silver nitrate for preventing eye infection in new born babies. Since then a range of silver salts, colloids and complexes have been employed to prevent and control infection.
  • Colloidal metallic silver has been used topically for conjunctivitis, urethritis and vaginitis.
  • inorganic silver compounds should be incorporated in bone cement to reduce the risk of postoperative infection following the insertion of an endoprosthetic orthopaedic implant.
  • J.A. Spadaro et al (Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 143, 266-270, 1979) proposed that low concentrations of inorganic silver compounds should be incorporated in polymethylmethacrylate bone cement for this purpose.
  • the compounds which they evaluated for this purpose were silver chloride (AgCl), silver oxide (Ag 2 O), silver sulphate (Ag 2 SO 4 ), silver phosphate (Ag 3 PO 4 ) and chlorided silver (Ag-AgCl). They report that their proposal was based upon the known antibacterial effects of silver ions.
  • the least effective of the compounds evaluated was chlorided silver which at 0.5% concentration did not inhibit any of the three bacteria tested, viz Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
  • each of the other compounds evaluated significantly inhibited the bacteria at 0.5% concentration except for silver chloride which did not inhibit Escherichia coli at that concentration.
  • electrically generated silver ions constitute a potent broad spectrum antibacterial agent of use as adjunctive treatment in the management of chronic osteomyelitis (Becker et al, J. Bone and Joint Surg., 60A, 871-881, 1978).
  • the silver iontophoresis was used after standard surgical treatment for osteomyelitis, including debridement and the opening of all pockets of infection.
  • silver wire electrodes were temporarily inserted for a period of about six weeks. Electrical current was applied to the electrode from an external power source.
  • a surgical implant having a composite form comprising a substantially bioinert structural material providing permanent mechanical integrity to the implant and a bioerodible metallic silver component providing in vivo a sustained release of silver ions in a concentration sufficient to provide a localized antimicrobial effect but insufficient to cause significant damage to connective tissue.
  • a method of rendering antimicrobial a surgical implant comprising a substantially bioinert structural material providing permanent mechanical integrity to the implant, said method comprising depositing on or in said implant a quantity of bioerodible metallic silver which will provide in vivo a sustained release of silver ions in a concentration sufficient to provide a localized antimicrobial effect but insufficient to cause significant damage to connective tissue.
  • a method of rendering antimicrobial a surgical Implant having a composite form comprising a substantially bioinert structural material providing permanent mechanical integrity to the implant and a latently bioerodible metallic silver component comprising treating said implant to render said silver component bioerodible to provide in vivo a sustained release of silver ions in a concentration sufficient to. provide a localized antimicrobial effect but insufficient to cause significant damage to connective tissue.
  • a method of prophylactic treatment of postoperative infection following implant surgery comprising selecting a surgical implant having a composite form comprising a substantially bioinert structural material providing permanent mechanical integrity to the implant and a latently bioerodible metallic silver component, treating said selected insert to render the metallic silver component thereof bioerodible to provide in vivo a sustained release of silver ions in a concentration sufficient to provide a localized antimicrobial effect but insufficient to cause significant damage to connective tissue, and surgically implanting the thus activated implant in the human or animal body.
  • the invention has particular, but not exclusive, application to endoprosthetic implants, especially orthopaedic implants.
  • the invention is applicable to any implant which has permanent structural integrity.
  • the implant can be made of any structural material which is substantially bioinert but usually will be made of titanium or titanium alloy, or cobalt chrome molyb denum alloy, or ceramic material, or non-toxic synthetic plastics material, or any combination of these materials.
  • implants to which the invention has particular application include orthopaedic plates, pins and screws, artificial joints and sutures.
  • the metallic silver component can be made of commercially pure (i.e. 99.99%) silver metal or of a silver alloy, for example a dental amalgam or silver solder.
  • a silver alloy for example a dental amalgam or silver solder.
  • an alloy of silver with a more noble metal such as gold or platinum.
  • the silver component will be deposited in or on the permanent implant structure.
  • the silver component is constituted by a surface coating on at least part of the implant structure.
  • the component can be constituted in other ways, for example as a deposit in one or more cavities provided in the permanent implant structure or as a permeant in a porous substrate in or on the permanent implant structure.
  • the location of the silver component in theimplant will be selected having regard to the structure and intended application of the implant.
  • said coating can extend over all or only a selected part or parts of the implant structure.
  • the silver in the case of cavity-deposited silver or permeant silver, the silver can be distributed over the implant structure or provided only at a selected part or parts thereof.
  • the quantity of silver in the composite implant and the rate of erosion in vivo is such as to provide a sustained release of silver ions in sufficient concentration to produce a localized antimicrobial effect but insufficient to produce significant damage to connective tissue.
  • the required concentration balance readily can be achieved because antimicrobial activity is provided at a concentration of the order of nanogrammes/ml whereas connective tissue damage appears to require concentrations of six orders higher, i.e. milligrammes/ml. Nevertheless, the cumulative effects of sustained release of silver ions in the body must be considered when determining the quantity of silver to be used and the rate of erosion to avoid toxic effects in the human or animal body.
  • any osteogenesis produced by the antimicrobial concentrations of silver can be tolerated and in many cases actually can be advantageous in that, forexample, an orthopaedic implant is more securely located and/or the bone thickened in an area of weakness where it is joined to the implant.
  • the quantity of silver in the composite implant suitably is the amount corresponding to a surface coating of 10 to 1000 Angstroms applied over the entire surface of the implant. This corresponds in the case of a large implant such as an artificial hip joint to not more than about 2 mg silver with proportionally smaller amounts of silver for smaller implants. Usually, an amount corresponding to such a coating of 25 to 500 Angstroms thick will be used.
  • the metallic silver component should be bioerodible to provide in vivo the silver ions required for the desired antimicrobial activity.
  • metallic silver surfaces such as silver bar, silver foil and silver coatings applied by conventional plating techniques are not significantly antimicrobial or at least lose any antimicrobial activity shortly after manufacture.
  • the preoperative treatment of surgical implants at the time when silver or silver-plated implants v/ere in use was such that the silver content of said implants would not have been suitably activated to become antimicrobial.
  • sterilization would have been conducted using temperatures of no more than about 100°C and/or sterilizing agents, such as alcohol, which do not activate the silver content to bioerode.
  • metallic silver can be rendered suitably bioerodible, including chemical, mechanical and/or thermal treatment as discussed below. It is expected that treatments
  • An existing metallic silver surface can be activated by abrasion to freshly expose the metal surface.
  • the surface can be scratched with one or more pointed tools or, more usually, rubbed with an abrasive material or tool.
  • the silver component can comprise a coating on or deposit at a wear surface of the joint so that movement of the joint continually abrades the silver coating or deposit.
  • the silver is deposited in or on a substrate of a more readily bioerodible material, for example iron, so that silver is released as the substrate erodes.
  • An existing metallic silver surface also can be activated thermally by heating to a temperature in excess of about 180°C.
  • the duration of heating required to activate the surface will depend upon the temperature and the nature of the surface. Usually a temperature in the range 200°Cto 270°C will be used for a period of 16 to 60 mins. It has been found surprisingly that the surface is activated either in a molecular oxygen-containing atmosphere such as gaseous oxygen or air, or in an inert atmosphere, such as gaseous argon or nitrogen.
  • the presently preferred manner of activating existing metallic silver surfaces is to treat the surface with hydrogen peroxide.
  • the implant is immersed in the hydrogen peroxide.
  • 10 to 100 vols hydrogen peroxide is employed for a contact time of about 20 mins.
  • the preference for this method is based upon convenience of use especially in view of the ready availability of hydrogen peroxide in operating theatres, where it is used to irrigate wounds at the time of operation.
  • the silver component can be deposited in an activated form by use of modern techniques such as sputter coating, film evaporation and ion implantation. These techniques are well known per se in the metallurgical art and hence will not be discussed in detail. Selection of a particular technique can be made from the general knowledge of the properties of the deposit produced and/or by simple experiment to assess in vitro the antimicrobial activity of the deposit. It has been found, for example, that silk or terylene sutures can be satisfactorily coated with an active silver coating using sputter techniques.
  • the present invention affords many advantages over current proposals and methods of dealing with postoperative infection following implant surgery. In particular, it provides a prophylatic treatment which at least reduces the risk of postoperative infection and which can be regularly employed in implant surgery.
  • the composite implant is selfcontained requiring no energy source, such as electrical current, to produce the antimicrobial activity. Said activity is provided merely by bioerosion of the silver component.
  • the silver ions so released are not accompanied by irritant and toxic cations such as those generated by freely dissociable salts such as silver nitrate. Further, it is less likely that the antimicrobial activity of silver ions will be circumvented by such relatively minor genetic mutation in a micro-organism as will often circumvent the antimicrobial activity of an antibiotic.
  • Figure 1 is a photograph of an incubated culture plate in which is located an implant pin which is partly coated with silver;
  • Figure 2 is a photograph of an incubated culture plate in which are located implant screws
  • Figure 3 is a photograph of an incubated culture plate in which is located an implant screw completely coated with silver;
  • Figures 4, 5 and 6 are photographs of incubated culture plates in which are located implant screws which are partly coated with silver;
  • Figure 7 is a photograph of an incubated culture plate in which a silver bar was located during incubation but was subsequently removed;
  • Figure 8 is a photograph of an incubated culture plate in which is located a silver bar;
  • Figures 9, 10 and 11 are photographs of incubated culture plates in which are located silver foil discs.
  • the bottom half 1of an implant pin 2 of titanium alloy type 318 was coated with silver by film evaporation.
  • the thus coated pin was autoclaved in a conventional modern operating theatre autoclave with steam at about 140°C followed by a hot air drying cycle. After cooling, it was then placed on a culture plate 3 which had been inoculated with Staphylococcus aureus and the culture incubated for 24 hours.
  • a titanium alloy screw identical to the screws 5 of Figure 2 was completely coated with a 35 nm layer of silver by sputter coating and shortly thereafter the coated screw 35 (see Figure 3) was placed on a culture plate 33, which was inoculated and incubated as described above. As can be seen in Figure 3, there was a clearly apparent zone 34 of inhibition completely around the silver coated screw 35.
  • Three titanium alloy screws identical to thescrews 5 of Figure 2 were coated with a 35 nm layer of silver at their upper halves only by sputter coating.
  • the partly coated screws 45 were heated in air for 1 hour at 250°C and then autoclaved with steam at 120°C.
  • a commercially available silver bar (99.99% purity) was heated in air at 225°C for 1 hour and, after cooling, placed on an empty culture plate. Culture medium was poured onto the plate and then inoculated with Staph. aureus (top half) and E. coli (bottom half) and incubated as described above. As can be seen in Figure 7, there was a clearly apparent zone of inhibition surrounding the location of the silver bar (subs equently removed) in the culture plate 73.

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