Revision hip prosthesis

For painful hip replacement.

In medicine, revision refers to the repetition or extension of a previously performed operation (revision and exchange operations).

The most common reason for revision:

Insufficient success of the previous surgery or occurred complications with the hip prosthesis.

Revision surgery on the hip (hip arthroplasty) is necessary as a follow-up procedure if parts of the prosthesis become loose, the sliding plastic wears out or the hip prosthesis becomes infected.

In the case of loosening, a distinction is made between aseptic loosening (without an infectious cause) and septic loosening, which is caused by a bacterial infection.

The revision is intended to achieve the originally intended treatment success or at least an improvement of the current condition.

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Dr. med. Matthias Schmied (Specialist FMH for Orthopaedic Surgery)

Course of the hip joint disease (Dr med. Matthias Schmied)

Healthy hip joint

A precise diagnosis is crucial for a promising therapy of hip pain. Did the hip pain occur after an accident or fall? Is the pain acute or chronic? Degenerative wear and tear, congenital maldevelopment, intensive sporting or occupational stress, previous injury or even overweight are the possible causes: severe stress pain, hip impingement (femoroacetabular impingement), hip arthrosis, painful hip prosthesis.

Hip Joint Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis of the hip joint (hip arthrosis, coxarthrosis) is a wear disease with cartilage wear in the hip joint, which causes severe pain during movement and also at rest. The pathological wear of the cartilage eventually causes bone to move on bone. If conservative treatment options no longer alleviate the pain, only total hip joint prosthesis implantation is promising and pain-free.

Hip joint prosthesis

Osteoarthritis in the hip joint cannot be cured in principle. Conservative therapies (gymnastics, muscle building) can slow down hip joint wear and stabilise pain. In order to improve limited mobility, the insertion of an artificial hip joint is promising in the case of advanced joint disease. The hip prosthesis replaces the damaged and worn sliding and surface parts of the natural joint.