Abstract
An eighty-three year old female has undergone orthopedic surgical treatment for the infection of the left hip joint causing high fever. After the operation she felt sick with onset of abdominal pain and abdominal fullness. Emergent operation was performed, and we diagnosed that she had the occlusive ileus at the sigmoid colon caused by the intrapelvic abscess following the total hip replacement.
Recently, according to the aging in the population, there has been many patients for orthopedic surgical operation including total hip replacement which had a delete-rious effect into the pelvis.
We suspect that the post-operative complications at hip joint can be one of the causes of ileus.
