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
