The hip joint is one of the joints most frequently subjected to wear and deterioration because it carries your weight. This condition is called osteoarthritis in medicine, arthritis in daily use, and is the most common disease of the hip. As with all joints, both the ball and socket of the hip joint are covered with cartilage. The cartilaginous structure allows these two bones to glide over each other painlessly and with minimal friction. Hip joint calcification is the wear of the cartilage covering the bones that make up this joint for various reasons and the deformation of the underlying bones.
We can basically divide hip joint calcification into two. The first group, which we encounter more frequently, includes calcifications that occur as a result of the wear of the cartilages in the hip joint over time due to a congenital or acquired structural disorder (hip dislocation, arthritis, trauma, etc.), while the second group includes hip calcifications of undetermined cause, which we call idiopathic.
Although hip joint calcification is generally seen after the age of 60, it can also occur at very early ages, especially after congenital hip dislocation and hip joint diseases experienced in childhood.
Hip Arthritis Symptoms
The most important complaint is pain. The pain is aching and felt in the affected joint. In the early stages of the disease, the pain increases with movement and decreases with rest. As the disease progresses, pain may become a problem even during simple daily activities. In later stages, constant pain may occur that disrupts night sleep patterns. The mobility of the joint may be restricted. The intensity of pain is not always constant. There may be good and bad days or even months, regardless of any reason. Some patients attribute this to the weather or think it is more related to physical activity.
Complications of Hip Replacement Surgery
Prosthetic surgery is one of the most serious surgeries in orthopedics. There are rules that must be followed before and after the surgery, and all possible precautions should be taken to prevent complications during the surgery. If the patient has additional diseases, these will be evaluated in detail. k, whether they pose a risk for the surgery or not and, if so, the degree of risk are explained to the patient. While patients are given information about their surgery, the risks of the surgery are also explained in detail.
We can list the complications that are likely to occur in prosthetic surgeries as follows:
- Those related to anesthesia,
- Vessel-nerve injuries during surgery,
- Bone fracture during the placement of the prosthesis,
- Excessive blood loss,
- Infection around the prosthesis after surgery,
- Thromboembolism (where the clot in the leg veins travels to other organs) occlusion of the vessels), loosening of the prosthesis in the early postoperative period.
Against these complications, the physician performing the surgery and the anesthesiologist take the necessary precautions together in the pre- and post-operative period and provide the necessary protective medical treatment to the patient.
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