Table 1.
Mean (±standard deviation) concentration of gentamicin elution for the seven time points (1, 8, 24, 48, 144, 240 and 288 h) from Herafill and PMMA cements of the study.
| Time (hours) | Mean gentamicin elution |
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| Herafill (ug/ml) | Palacos R + G (ug/ml) | Copal G + V (ug/ml) | Copal G + C (ug/ml) | Home-made Palacos R + G 1% (ug/ml) | Home-made Palacos R + G 1.2% (ug/ml) | Home-made Palacos R + G + V (ug/ml) | Home-made Palacos R + G 2.4% (ug/ml) | |
| 1 | 5.91 ± 0.76 | 4.39 ± 0.67 | 3.69 ± 0.75 | 11.39 ± 1.7 | 1.88 ± 0.24 | 2.34 ± 0.26 | 4.54 ± 0.82 | 4.67 ± 0.51 |
| 8 | 22.46 ± 0.42 | 2.59 ± 0.28 | 2.21 ± 0.33 | 6.13 ± 0.56 | 0.92 ± 0.25 | 1.11 ± 0.09 | 2.38 ± 0.06 | 2.21 ± 0.19 |
| 24 | 24.72 ± 3.55 | 1.92 ± 0.71 | 2.03 ± 0.20 | 5.34 ± 0.34 | 0.88 ± 0.26 | 0.75 ± 0.12 | 1.26 ± 0.05 | 1.51 ± 0.23 |
| 48 | 13.81 ± 0.36 | 0.91 ± 0.07 | 1.43 ± 0.43 | 4.86 ± 1.01 | 0.63 ± 0.03 | 0.61 ± 0.06 | 1.05 ± 0.21 | 1.22 ± 0.12 |
| 144 | 0.33 ± 0.17 | 0.37 ± 0.18 | 0.68 ± 0.41 | 1.92 ± 0.26 | 0.38 ± 0.06 | 0.33 ± 0.11 | 0.52 ± 0.11 | 0.67 ± 0.21 |
| 240 | 0.34 ± 0.17 | 0.39 ± 0.01 | 0.48 ± 0.25 | 1.25 ± 0.21 | 0.32 ± 0.13 | 0.23 ± 0.16 | 0.38 ± 0.08 | 0.47 ± 0.32 |
| 288 | 0.35 ± 0.15 | 0.57 ± 0.13 | 0.56 ± 0.14 | 2.07 ± 0.13 | 0.48 ± 0.12 | 0.44 ± 0.16 | 0.52 ± 0.08 | 0.80 ± 0.20 |