This week we are going to discuss a very rare but present danger to the hip joint which can be career-ending for an athlete as well as joint ending for you and me — avascular necrosis. Avascular as ...

Clinicians must be well-versed in distinguishing the exact etiology of avascular necrosis of the hip in order to prevent further injury and recommend the best course of treatment. In a majority of ...

Credit: Getty Images Avascular necrosis is a type of osteonecrosis resulting from a disruption in blood supply to the proximal femur and is a major complication associated with developmental hip ...

Hip replacement surgery is important when it comes to managing people with avascular necrosis. Avascular necrosis happens when there is a death of bone tissue because of a lack of blood supply. It is ...

There has been a rise in back and hip pain in young adults. If you’re a young adult in your 20s or 30s with a nagging hip pain that won’t go away, don’t just say it’s a muscle pull, tough workout or ...

Dr Suresh Nathan, an orthopaedic surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, describes what avascular necrosis of the hip is, what causes it and how to treat it. AVN is a condition that results from the ...

Avascular necrosis of the hip arises when owing to the weakening of the bone and deformity of the femoral head. Moreover, a loss of blood supply to the femoral head causes the deformation of the ...

That Mike Napoli ended up accepting a one-year, $5 million guarantee from the Red Sox after originally agreeing to a three-year, $39 million contract suggested that something pretty bad was going on ...

When trades and free-agent signings are announced, almost everyone dismisses the phrase "pending a physical" without much thought, yet Mike Napoli's diagnosis of avascular necrosis (AVN) reminds us ...

A single-surgeon case series of patients with osteonecrosis undergoing resurfacing showed poor implant survival, and surgeons at the institution now consider osteonecrosis a contraindication to hip ...