There are pain side effects nausea constipation side effects from pain medication sleeplessness from discomfor.
Side effect of total hip replacement.
This is most often caused by the durom cup which fails to stay sealed and seated in place allowing the cup to grate against the bone.
This life threatening side effect after hip replacement surgery can cause severe breathing difficulties and requires immediate medical attention.
Commonly known as wear and tear arthritis osteoarthritis damages the slick cartilage that covers the ends of bones and helps joints move smoothly.
Conditions that can damage the hip joint sometimes making hip replacement surgery necessary include.
Before reports of metallosis with metal on metal hips the national institutes of health recognized osteolysis as the most significant long term adverse effect of total hip replacement.
The incidence of periprosthetic osteolysis in many studies is greater than the sum of all the rest of the complications author rupen dattani wrote.
Blood clots within the legs a condition called deep vein thrombosis are a common side effect of this type of hip surgery aaos reports.
The hips most implicated in these complications which have led to recalls and lawsuits are metal on metal hips.