[Biorhythmic characteristics of patients with total primary and revision hip replacement].

Age-dependent fluctuations of primary total and revision endoprosthesis have been found which appear to reflect changes in the activity of the inflammation process that can be regarded to be an element of periodic diseases. This seems to depend on the regulatory-metabolic shifts caused by aging.

[Biorhythmical characterization of exacerbations of the degenerative-dystrophic process in patients with the impaired hip joint]. / Bioritmicheskaia kharakteristika obostrenii degenerativno-distroficheskogo protsessa u patsientov s porazheniem tazobedrennogo sustava.

The age-dependent structure of the contingents treated conservatively at the local outpatient clinics (197 women aged 17-82 and 59 men aged 25-85) and patients subjected to operations of total endoprosthesis of the hip joint for coxarthrosis (663 women aged 19-89 and 304 men aged 22-82) was investigated. The structure of the indices under study was found to fluctuate with the average period length 10.7 years (sigma = 2.7 years), 8.2 years (sigma = 3.5 years), 7.3 days (sigma = 3.0 years), 9.5 years (sigma = 2.1 years) respectively. A comparison of the fluctuation curves of the age-dependent structure of the women treated conservatively and operated upon showed the coincidence of the maximums in 35, 43, 60, 65, 69, 74-74 years of age, in men--in 34-35, 41, 75-76. It can be supposed that the revealed age-dependent fluctuations of activity of the inflammatory process and the pain syndrome correspondingly might be considered as an element of the periodic disease in pathogenesis of degenerative-dystrophic lesions of the hip joint.