Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery
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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg · Apr 2005
Case ReportsBilateral osteonecrosis of the femoral head after pregnancy.
Published cases of non-traumatic avascular necrosis of the femoral head associated with pregnancy are rare. We report a case of a 41-year-old woman who suddenly complained of bilateral hip pain 3 weeks after delivery by Caesarean section. For a problem of sterility, she had been treated with human menopausal gonadotropin and human chorionic gonadotropin (hMG-hCG). ⋯ Osteonecrosis was related to pretentaine. A bilateral total hip arthroplasty was performed. The literature about avascular necrosis of the femoral head associated with pregnancy in previous cases is reviewed.