Treatment

The extent of bone damage determines treatment. Core bone can be removed and new bone grafted into the area to allow a new blood supply to form. With severe bone death of the knee or hip, joint replacements may be conducted. Given the early stage of investigations into osteonecrosis among people with HIV, nothing specific is known about treatment of this condition in the context of HIV infection.

See also Osteoporosis.

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