Table 1.
Information about the patients enrolled into study.
| Patient No. | Sex | Age | Nationality | Smoking Status | Drug Therapy | Classes of Medicaments | Recommended Procedure for Surgery | Degree of Radiographic Changes in the Knee 3 | Current Laboratory Data: CRP 4/BSG 5 | Earlier Surgery Procedures | BMI 6 | VAS 7 | Pain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 012 | F 1 | 76 | Swiss | non | Pantozol, Pravastatin, Torasemid, Triatec | 1, 5, 3, 4 | TKA 2 | 4 | 8.3/18 | Meniscus | 27.5 | 8 | high |
| 013 | F | 64 | Italian | non | Co-Aprovel | 5 | TKA | 4 | 8.5/50 | non | 31.8 | 3 | low |
| 014 | F | 74 | Swiss | non | non | non | TKA | 4 | 1.2/20 | Meniscus | 23.4 | 0 | low |
| 015 | F | 75 | Swiss | non | Lithium | 6 | TKA | 4 | 0.5/12 | non | 23.7 | 1 | low |
| 016 | F | 62 | Swiss | non | Metoprolol, Sirdalud, Femeston, Pantozol | 2, 10, 7, 1 | TKA | 3 | 4.6/14 | non | 23.2 | 9 | high |
| 017 | F | 70 | German | non | Fludex | 3 | TKA | 4 | -/- | non | 43.7 | 8 | high |
| 018 | F | 78 | Swiss | non | Atenolol, Co-Epril, Madopar, Metformin, Simcora, Tiatral, Zanidip, Tramadol | 2, 4, 6, 8, 5, 10 | TKA | 4 | 7.7/22 | non | 35.5 | 7 | high |
| 019 | F | 67 | Swiss | non | Tilur, Zolpidem | 10, 6 | TKA | 4 | 1.1/7 | non | 25.4 | 8 | high |
| 021 | F | 65 | Swiss | non | Aspirin, Surmontil | 10, 6 | TKA | 4 | 5.4/17 | Arthroscopy | 32 | 0–3.5 8 | low |
| 022 | F | 77 | Italian | non | Aspirin, Calcimagon, Magnesium, Pantozol, Pemzek | 10, 9, 1, 4 | TKA | 4 | 9.2/29 | non | 34.2 | 2 | low |
Classes of medicaments: (1) proton pump inhibitors, (2) β-blockers, (3) diuretics, (4) Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, (5) drugs decreasing cholesterol blood level, (6) medicaments against psychiatric disorders, (7) hormonal replacement therapy, (8) diabetes, (9) drugs against osteoporosis, (10) pain killers; β-blockers, diuretics, ACE inhibitors and ZANIDIP (unclassified) are all against high blood pressure or heart disease. 1 F: female, 2 TKA: Total Knee Arthroplasty, 3 according to Kellgren and Lawrence system grade [15], 4 CRP: C–Reactive Protein, 5 BSG: Blood Sedimentation Rate, 6 BMI: Body Mass Index, 7 VAS: Visual Analog Scale, 8 patient with VAS at rest 0 and under loading with 3.5.