High Tibial Osteotomy (HTO) With or Without Arthroscopy of the Knee Joint

University of Western Ontario, Canada

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Medial Compartment Osteoarthritis of the Knee

Treatments: Other: No arthroscopy; Procedure: knee Arthroscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01614288

FKSMC 2010 - 2

Details and patient eligibility

About

Participants will be randomized to undergo a High Tibial Osteotomy (HTO) with or without a knee scope. Patients will be tested in the Gait Lab, will fill out quality-of-life questionnaires, and have a clinical evaluation done preoperative and at each follow-up visit.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients booked for an HTO due to OA
• Grades II to IV severity of OA by radiographic evaluation (Kellgren & Lawrence grade)
• OA of the knee primarily involving the medial compartment

Exclusion criteria

• Imaging evidence of significant knee joint pathology that would change the decision to do an HTO
• An arthroscopy of the knee within 2 years of planned surgery
• Active joint or systemic infection,
• Major medical illness that would preclude undergoing surgery,
• Patients who are unwilling or unable to be assessed according to study protocol for two years following surgery
• Major psychiatric illness, developmental handicap or inability to read and understand the English language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Knee Arthroscopy + HTO

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: knee Arthroscopy

HTO Alone

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: No arthroscopy