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Endoprosthesis of the hip
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Its a replacement of the neck and the femoral head on a metal prosthesis. In the hip bone is built cup, there are options with a ceramic (aluminum oxide) or polyethylene insert is inserted into the thigh length of the leg with a ball-tipped on the cervix. Spherical part, too, is a ceramic. Leg prosthesis is smooth - and then attached at the hip on a special cement, and is porous, so that could increment without cement. Option without cement is less suitable for the elderly. The main complication - iatrogenic osteomyelitis (abscess) that occurs with very high probability when installing a prosthesis after nailing, and at other contraindications, which are quite a lot, but many doctors are now most of them tend to ignore. Suppuration is the plan of Bacteriological (streptococci, staphylococci, etc.), viral (for example, it could be herpes), or fungal and fight it with the means - antibiotic, antiviral and antifungal drugs, especially if the specific cause can be identified as a result of punctures and crops. On arthroplasty in Russia extends the practice of budgetary allocations "to high-tech help - quotas. For quotas and to perform operations under the quota queue for a year and a half. This is not emergency care and save lives, but only "to improve the quality of life" - almost like plastic surgery. It is believed that you can wait or not do.
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