What may increase your risk for problems from your hip symptoms?

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What may increase your risk for problems from your hip symptoms?

Many conditions, lifestyle choices, medications, and diseases interfere with your ability to heal or fight infection. You may be at risk for a more serious problem from your symptoms if you have any of the following. Be sure to tell your health professional.

Conditions

• A hip problem or condition present since birth (congenital defect)
• Previous hip injury
• Previous surgery to hip area
• Previous surgery to remove the spleen (splenectomy)

Lifestyle choices

• Alcohol abuse or withdrawal
• Drug abuse or withdrawal
• Smoking or other tobacco use

Medications

• Blood-thinning medications, such as warfarin, heparin, and aspirin
• Chemotherapy or radiation therapy
• Corticosteroids, such as prednisone
• Medications to prevent organ transplant rejection

Diseases

• Bleeding disorders, such as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) or hemophilia
• Cancer
• Diabetes
• Gout
• Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
• Inherited bone disease
• Kidney disease
• Lupus
• Malnutrition or an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia
• Multiple sclerosis
• Osteoarthritis
• Osteomyelitis
• Osteoporosis
• Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Septic arthritis
• Septic bursitis
• Sickle cell anemia

Credits

Last updated:	October 27, 2006
Author:	Jan Nissl, RN, BS
Reviewed By:	William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine, H. Michael O'Connor, MD - Emergency Medicine
Editors:	Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Tracy Landauer