The Relationship Between Preoperative Serum Cytokine Level and Lenght of Stay in Hospital, Postoperative Pain Intensity, Functional Status, Joint Position Sense and X Ray Findings

Functional Status

Turkish version of Western Ontario McMaster University Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) scale will be used to evaluate functional status. The WOMAC is a self reported funtional assessment scale consisting of 24 items which responded on Likert type scale (0 = none, 1 = mild, 2 = moderate, 3 = severe, 4 = extreme), with higher score indicating more difficulty

Time frame: Functional status will be assessed before surgery and 6 weeks after surgery

Joint Position Sense

Joint positon sense will be evaluated by using a digital goniometer. Each patient will be asked to sat in a erect pack position on the chair with knee relaxed in 90 º flexion noticing that popliteal fossa was not in contact with end edge of the chair. A digital goniometer will be placed at the lateral aspect of the knee, with moveable arm in the course of midline of the lateral malleolus and stationary arm along the midline of the femur. The knee will be moved passively by examiner slowly from initial position (90º flexion) to final predetermined three angle (35º, 55º, 70º), hold final positon for 5 second and then return to initial position with same speed. After instruction the procedure, patients will be ask to extend the knee actively for each angle. This procedure will be repeated three times for each angle.

Time frame: It will be evaluated before surgery and 6 weeks after surgery

X-Ray

To measure valgus angle, standart anteroposterior (AP) X ray view was obtained from patients in standing position and without shoes. The angle between femoral axis which indicate a line drawn from femoral head to femoral intercondylar notch and tibial axis which describe a line from the center of the talus bone to the center of the tibial spine was measured by orthopedics

Time frame: X-ray evaluated before surgery, 72 hour after surgery and 6 weeks ater surgery

Serum Cytokine Level

Five-milliliter blood samples from each individual were placed into vacutainer tubes without anticoagulant. These were then centrifuged at 1800 g for 10 minutes. Serum samples were stored at -80°C until being used for measurements. Serum IL- 6, TNF-α ve IL-1β levels were determined using commercial sandwich-ELISA kits. The absorbance of the samples was measured at a 450 nm wavelength on a VERSA (designed by Molecular Devices in California, USA) micro plate reader. The results were expressed as pg/ mL. The coefficients of variation (CV) of this ELISA method were6.69% for IL-6, 6.62% for TNF alfa and 6.72% for IL-1beta.

Time frame: Venous blood sample was collected 2 weeks before surgery