Table 1.
Patients’ Demographics.
| Total AVN* Number | Total |
CD** |
HBO*** |
P value |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 patients/23 hips | 12 (52.2%) | 11 (47.8%) | – | ||
| Lateralilty | Unilateral | 15 (78.9.%) | – | – | – |
| Bilateral | 4 (21.1%) | – | – | – | |
| Side | Right | 12 (52.1%) | 8 | 4 | 0.146 |
| Left | 11 (47.9%) | 4 | 7 | 0.146 | |
| Age (years) | 35.2 ± 9.8 | 35.4 ± 10.5 | 35.1 ± 9.5 | 0.951 | |
| BMI # | 27.3 ± 4.3 | 29.1 ± 3.3 | 25.2 ± 4.5 | 0.43 | |
| Gender | Male | 9 (47.3.%) | 5 | 4 | 0.809 |
| Female | 10 (52.7.%) | 5 | 5 | 0.809 | |
| Risk Factors | Alcohol | 1 (5.3%) | 2 | 0 | 0.660 |
| DM ## | 1 (5.3%) | 1 | 0 | 0.330 | |
| Smoking | 4 (21.1%) | 2 | 2 | 0.906 | |
| SCD ### | 3 (15.8%) | 1 | 2 | 0.466 | |
| Steriod | 6 (31.6%) | 3 | 3 | 0.876 | |
| No risk factor | 7 (5.3%) | 3 | 4 | 0.466 | |
| Follow up (Months) | 34.2 ± 18.4 | 48.7 ± 13.3 | 18.2 ± 4.2 | <0.001 | |
* = AVN: Avascular Necrosis, ** = CD: Core Decompression, *** = HBO: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.
# = BMI: Body Mass Index, ## = DM: Diabetes Mellitus, ### = SCD: Sickle Cell Disease.