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MRI after hip replacement

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barnara40691
barnara40691

is it safe to do a mri after hip replacement?

i am 6 months post for anterior hip replacement. i have pain in my hip, outside the replacement and cannot turn my leg certain ways which causes sever pain which hoes all the way down my leg. my thigh has a great deal of pain.

i have had several xrays and a ct scan which shows nothing. the are going to do an mri today. i hope the mri is safe!

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  • maggie93798
    maggie93798 barnara40691

    Posted

    It is quite a common investigation in trying to find problems after THR. It gives more detail than other methods

  • ptolemy
    ptolemy barnara40691

    Posted

    You need to let them know that you have had a new hip, as it can heat the prosthesis up if they are not careful.

  • arlowood
    arlowood barnara40691

    Posted

    All modern hip replacement prostheses are made from non-ferrous metals so should be unaffected by the magnetic fields created during MRI scanning.

    There are some suggestions that the presence of a hip implant can affect the resolution of scans in areas around the replacement but I think these can be resolved using image processing techniques

  • gill86550
    gill86550 barnara40691

    Posted

    i had one, they say it is a metal artefect suppression mri, and it was done around 16 weeks, showing up interesting causes of my pain. good luck.

  • gill86550
    gill86550 barnara40691

    Posted

    i had trochanteric bursitis and oseitis pubis on too of the pain in the hip joint. i have been able to solve the first two but the hip joint is still very painful and it feels like I have a cheese grater inside shearing away at my flesh and causing up to 7 cm swelling after 20 minutes walking.

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