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. 2009 Sep 3;6(5):258–264. doi: 10.7150/ijms.6.258

Table 1.

Patients' data, surgical procedures, and causative organisms at the site of hip spacer implantation in the treatment of coxitis and proximal femur infections after osteosynthesis.

Patient Age/ Gender Diagnosis Surgical treatment Pathogen organism Time between stages [days] Follow-up [days] Comorbidities
1 61/M reactive coxitis after psoas abscess femoral head resection and spacer implantation n.o.i. 84 684 cerebral infarct, renal tuberculosis, heart muscle akinesia
2 65/F septic pseudarthrosis after osteosynthesis for intertrochanteric fracture dynamic hip screw removal, femoral head resection and spacer implantation MRSA S. epidermidis 87 473 hyperthyreosis
3 52/M destructive bacterial coxitis resection arthroplasty, beads implantation and subsequent spacer implantation S. aureus 60 405 arterial hypertension, hyperuricaemia, obesity, diabetes mellitus
4 66/F secondary bacterial coxitis after pelvic abscess femoral head resection and spacer implantation S. aureus 93 744 arterial hypertension, alcohol abuse, polyneuropathia
5 66/M septic pseudarthrosis after osteosynthesis for intertrochanteric fracture hardware removal, femoral head resection and spacer spacer implantation α-haemol. streptococci 192 175 adrenal adenoma, arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, peripheral vascular disease, heart insufficiency NYHA II, obstructive pulmonal disease
6 75/F septic pseudarthrosis after osteosynthesis for intertrochanteric fracture dynamic hip screw removal, femoral head resection and spacer implantation n.o.i. 73 210 heart infarct, chronic venous stasis, gastric ulcer
7 77/M septic pseudarthrosis after osteosynthesis for intertrochanteric fracture dynamic hip screw removal, femoral head resection and spacer implantation S. aureus 134 344 arterial hypertension, alcohol abuse, chronic renal insufficiency, coronar heart disease, cerebral atrophy
8 70/F destructive bacterial coxitis femoral head resection and spacer implantation S. aureus 113 155 obesity, arterial hypertension, reflux oesophagitis, local hypernephroma relapse
9 72/M bilateral destructive bacterial coxitis following bilateral psoas abscess bilateral abscess debridement, femoral head resection and spacer implantation S. aureus p.p.a. p.p.a. lunge edema, hemicolectomy, sepsis
10 52/F destructive bacterial coxitis femoral head resection and spacer implantation n.o.i. p.p.a. p.p.a. arterial hypertension, heart insufficiency, depression, spondylodiscitis L5/S1

n.o.i.: no organism identified; p.p.a.: patient passed away