Effectiveness of Contemporary Knee Arthroplasty in Working-age Patients

Coxa, Hospital for Joint Replacement

Status: Completed

Conditions: Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Other: Knee arthroplasty

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03233620

R11178

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of our study was to assess the effectiveness of contemporary knee arthroplasty in working-age patients (< 65 years) by conducting a prospective cohort study with 2-year follow up. Outcomes were measured comprehensively using various patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to provide information on the effect of knee arthroplasty on pain, satisfaction, physical activity, activities of daily living, and quality of life.

Enrollment: 250 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 65 or less and
• Scheduled for either TKA or unicondylar knee arthroplasty (UKA)

Exclusion criteria

• rheumatoid arthritis or other inflammatory diseases
• unwilling to provide informed consent
• physical, mental, or neurological conditions that could comprise the patient´s ability and compliance with postoperative rehabilitation and follow-up (e.g., drug or alcohol abuse, serious mental illness, general neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), etc.)
• known sensitivity to materials in the devices.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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250 participants in 1 patient group

working age patients

Other group

Description:

Prospective cohort of 250 patients.

Treatment:

Other: Knee arthroplasty