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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 98-B, Issue SUPP_11 | Pages 6 - 6
1 Jun 2016
Ebreo D Felgate H Martinez-Estrada F Donell S Nolan J Clark I
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Introduction

The biological pathways responsible for adverse reactions to metal debris (ARMD) are unknown. Necrotic and inflammatory changes in response to Co-Cr nanoparticles in periprosthetic tissues may involve both a cytotoxic response and a type IV delayed hypersensitivity response.

Our aim was to establish whether differences in biological cascade activation exists in tissues of patients with end-stage OA compared to those with aseptic loosening of a metal on polyethylene (MoP) THR and those with ARMD from metal-on-metal (MoM) THR.

Patients & Methods

A microarray experiment (Illumina HT12-v4) was performed to identify the range of differential gene expression between 24 patients across 3 phenotypes: Primary OA (n=8), revision for aseptic loosening of MoP THR (n=8) and ARMD associated with MoM THR (n=8).

Results were validated using Taqman Low Density Array (TLDA) selecting the top 36 genes in terms of fold-change (FC)>2 and a significant difference (p<0.05) on ANOVA.

Pathways of cellular interaction were explored using Ingenuity IPA software.