Bone Graft Necessity in Opening-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy

University of Campinas, Brazil

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Procedure: high tibial osteotomy; Procedure: higi tibial osteotomy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00786942

Puddu

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine wether autologous bone graft from iliac crest enhances bone union of tibial osteotomies, in the treatment of varus knee deformity.

Full description

Opening-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy is a classic procedure,but the use of autologous bone graft from iliac crest causes pain and bleeding. Bone union occur even without bone graft, but no clinical trials compared results of the twoo procedures.

Enrollment: 44 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• varus knee deformity
• unicompartmental arthrosis

Exclusion criteria

• patellar arthrosis
• lateral arthrosis
• inflammatory diseases
• bone healing impair drugs or diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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44 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Active Comparator group

Description:

autologous bone graft

Treatment:

Procedure: high tibial osteotomy

2

Experimental group

Description:

without bone graft

Treatment:

Procedure: higi tibial osteotomy