Table 1

Demographic and clinical data of patients with osteoarthritis operated on for aseptic loosening of total hip arthroplasty from whom interfacial membranes were available for epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor α analysis

Case Age (years) Sex Time to revision (years) Type of prosthesis Type of alloy1-150 Fixation
 177F14Lubinus SPIITiVAlCemented
 263F11BrunsvickCoVAlCemented
 385F 1ThompsonVitaliumCemented
 460M 2Lubinus SPIITiVAlCemented
 571M14BrunsvickCoVAlCemented
 685F18Lubinus SPIITiVAlCemented
 744M 6LinkCoCrMoCementless
 883M 1Lubinus SPIITiVAlCemented
 970F 2OsteonicsCoCrMoCementless
1089F25McKee-FarrarCoCrMoCemented
  • 1-150 TiVAl = titanium-vanadium-aluminium alloy; CoVAl = cobalt-vanadium-aluminium alloy; CoCrMo = cobalt-chromium-molybdenum alloy.