Hip osteoarthritis surgical profiles and morbid obesity: a case series and literature review

The disease known as hip osteoarthritis is a common highly painful disabling joint disease with no known cure affecting a large proportion of the adult population [1,2]. One potentially preventable factor that may mediate or moderate the onset and progression of hip osteoarthritis is obesity [3]. Moreover, even though surgery to replace a diseased joint is generally successful, the presence of extremely high body weights in excess of ideal body weight [4,5] may impact the outcome of surgery for hip osteoarthritis quite negatively, rather than improving health status [5-7].