Bilateral septic arthritis with rapid progressive destruction of the femoral head after joint injection in rheumatoid arthritis

Viola Freigang; Florian Baumann; Volker Alt

doi:10.5194/jbji-6-255-2021

Bilateral septic arthritis with rapid progressive destruction of the femoral head after joint injection in rheumatoid arthritis

J Bone Jt Infect. 2021 Jul 7;6(7):255-256. doi: 10.5194/jbji-6-255-2021. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Viola Freigang¹, Florian Baumann¹, Volker Alt¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Trauma Surgery, Regensburg University Medical Center, 93042 Regensburg, Germany.

Abstract

This report is on a 61-year-old patient with steroid therapy for rheumatoid arthritis and pain in the groin on both sides who got injections with hyaluronic acid in both hip joints. After 12 weeks the X-ray of the pelvis showed rapid progressive destruction of both hip joints.