Hip Replacement Complications Years Later
People who have received metal on metal hips may also experience metallosis a form of metal poisoning that causes tissue damage and other serious conditions.
Hip replacement complications years later. Revision hip replacements may also be performed to manage complications such as infection of a hip replacement hip replacement dislocation or fractures of the bone around the hip replacement. Osteolysis this is when local inflammation destroys the bone and loosens a prosthetic device aka aseptic loosening which can ultimately result in dislocation after hip replacement surgery. Also the recovery timeline for each person that has a surgical hip replacement is going to vary based on other past medical history or complications. Hip replacement complications include blood clots change in leg length dislocation fractures infection and loosening of the implant.
The number of hip revisions performed by orthopedic surgeons is growing quickly at an estimated rate of 8 to 10 each year.