Effects of the Use of Tourniquet in Total Knee Arthroplasty on the Clinical and Functional Outcomes With 5 Years of Follow up

Hawler Medical University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Use of Tourniquet in Total Knee Arthroplasty

Treatments

Procedure: tourniquet

Procedure: No tourniquet

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04469166

HMU/Sherwan 10

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is randomized controlled trial with 5 years follow up and involved 101 patients divided in two groups; group A in which tourniquet was used in total knee arthroplasty while group B in which tourniquet was not used. All these patients were analyzed for the clinical and functional outcome measures.

Full description

In this study, investigators have primary outcome measures and secondary outcome measures which were assessed in multiple periods to see the effects of using tourniquet in total knee arthroplasty on the clinical and functional outcomes with follow up of 5 years.

Enrollment

101 patients

Sex

All

Ages

55 to 80 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Grade 3 and 4 osteoarthritis
age 55-80 years
patients agree to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

Smoking
Diabetes mellitus .Symptomatic spinal pathology with moderate to severe cervical or lumbosacral spinal stenosis.
Hip pathology like osteoarthritis or fractures
Neuromuscular disorders
Blood dyscrasia or anticoagulant treatment .Body mass index equal to 30 or more.
Previous knee surgery or knee infection
Peripheral vascular disease
Rheumatoid arthritis
Hemoglobin less than 12 gram/deciliter