The phrase 'consequent difficulty' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a difficulty that a particular event or circumstance has led to. For example, "The decline in the town's economy has resulted in consequent difficulty for many of its residents."
By good management its limited (six months per year) breeding season and the consequent difficulty of maintaining a level supply of milk throughout the year, can be overcome.
The weather and the consequent difficulty in preparation of the pitch mean Lord's is likely to be as hospitable to seam as it ever will be but it will still be a challenge.
Software entrepreur Jim Manzi calls the rate at which small changes can have surprising effects on outcomes, and the consequent difficulty in drawing general conclusions, "causal density".
But, the result is the origin of too many schools of thermodynamics with a consequent difficulty in communication between thermodynamicists and other scientists and, also, among themselves.
A major problem in revision surgery is the loss of bone stock and the consequent difficulty in reconstructing a stable joint.
Although a thinner PBI membrane is beneficial in enhancing power performance, the use of thin PBI membrane has been hindered by its poor mechanical property and consequent difficulty in membrane handling during membrane electrode assembly (MEA) fabrication.
On each occasion, the reasons given suggest that because of the numbers of people arrested - with consequent difficulties of identification, or because of the complexities of the law of riot - convictions could not be obtained.
For one woman, at least, the incandescent light bulb is an irritating emblem of the transit agency's fear of, and consequent difficulties with, any kind of new technology.
This rather safer take is perhaps forgivable given the film's non-commercial subject matter and its consequent difficulties securing distribution in the US, but it does, at times, mean we are given the gurning, maniacal Carrey of old, rather than the more nuanced performance that we all know he's capable of in the wake of films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Truman Show.
Real Madrid looked like an unstoppable machine as they rolled into the game on the back of a 31-game unbeaten run, but their defensive deficiencies were exposed as Messi and Iniesta preyed upon their formational inflexibility and their consequent difficulties in closing space 'between the lines' of defence and midfield.
Scoring methods for both immunohistochemical staining and vessel counting vary between studies, with consequent difficulties in the extrapolation of results.
