Table III.

Adverse events

Patient	Sex	Age, yrs	Type of spacer surgery 1	Adverse events after surgery 1	Type of spacer surgery 2	Adverse events after surgery 2
1	Male	61	Silver	Redness and itching of the back at day 1, elevated thrombocytes	Non-silver	Elevated leucocytes
2	Male	45	Non-silver	Low oxygen saturation for four days; mild: mouth dryness	Silver	None
3	Male	76	Silver	Leg oedema, nausea, elevated LDH, elevated urea	Non-silver	None
4	Female	75	Silver	Leg oedema, nausea	Non-silver	Nausea, leg oedema
5	Female	80	Silver	Low oxygen saturation for ten days	Non-silver	Diarrhoea
6	Male	72	Non-silver	Nausea, diarrhoea, hypertension, renal insufficiency, disorientation	Silver	Disorientation, diarrhoea
7	Male	80	Silver	Mycosis inguinal area, low potassium, elevated creatinine	N/A*	N/A*
8	Female	75	Non-silver	Low potassium, disorientation, bleeding of haemorrhoids, hypotension, vomiting, urinal mycosis, diarrhoea, high potassium	Silver	Hypotension, vomiting; moderate: urinal tract infection, hyper potassium
9	Male	31	Silver	None	Non-silver	None
10	Male	64	Non-silver	None	Silver	None
11	Female	77	Silver	Hallucinations, bradyarrhythmia; mild: limited renal function	Non-silver	Arterial hypertension, redness neck region, strong sweating, depression; mild: low potassium, limited renal function
12	Female	64	Non-silver	None	Silver	None

^*Patient chose to withdraw from the study after surgery 1

LDH, lactate dehydrogenase; N/A, not applicable