No difference in bacterial contamination of hip capsule sutures and control sutures in hip arthroplasty surgery

Table 1 Patients’ characteristics of 98 primary total hip arthroplasties including culture results

	All	Negative suture cultures	Positive capsule and/or control suture cultures*
N (%)	98	88	10
Age	72.4 ± 8.6	73.1 ± 8.3	67.0 ± 9.8
Sex, female, n (%)	69 (70)	66 (75)	3 (30)
BMI, kg/m²	28.0 ± 4.9	27.6 ± 4.4	30.8 ± 7.4
Fixation technique, n (%)
Cemented	67 (68)	60 (68)	7 (70)
Cementless	31 (32)	28 (32)	3 (30)
Duration of surgery, minutes	68.9 ± 16.9	68.3 ± 17.0	74.3 ± 16.2
Cemented	75.9 ± 13.5	75.6 ± 13.5	79.0 ± 13.5
Cementless	53.8 ± 13.5	52.8 ± 12.8	63.3 ± 19.6
Intraoperative blood loss^†, ml	339.0 ± 225.3	339.1 ± 231.2	337.5 ± 170.2

All values are means ± standard deviation unless stated otherwise. * Positive cultures in either or both of the capsule or control suture group; ^† Intraoperative blood loss was only reported in 48 cases (48%), of which 4 (8%) had positive cultures. BMI body mass index.

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