Mike Ditka was resting comfortably Tuesday following surgery toreplace part of his artificial right hip.
The former Bears coach and Hall of Fame tight end underwent athree-hour procedure at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Centerin which parts of his artificial hip that had loosened since hisoriginal surgery in 1984 were repaired.
The procedure, called revision surgery, is more complex thanreplacing the entire hip because it requires customizing new,replacement pieces to fit into sections of the remaining, originalartificial hip.
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mitchell B. Sheinkop, who performed theoriginal surgery and also 1992 surgery replacing Ditka's left hip,performed the operation.
"The coach told me then that he'd wait to have the surgeryuntil (the problem) affected his golf game," Sheinkop said. "Wescheduled surgery now because his golf handicap increased from 1 to8, and medication can no longer control his pain."
Officials expected to release more information on Ditka'scondition today.
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