Survey of Current Management of Orthopaedic Complications in CMT Patients

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease

Treatments

Other: Survey

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT02001038

INC 6608

Details and patient eligibility

About

Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is the most common inherited peripheral neuropathy. Foot deformities are frequent complications in CMT patients and orthopaedic surgery is often required. As yet there are no systematic studies on the management of orthopaedic complications in CMT patients and the current approach varies between centres. This study is a survey with the aim of understanding the current surgical approach to orthopaedic complications in CMT.

The target population includes orthopaedic surgeons who perform surgical procedures for foot deformities in CMT patients attending centres participating in the Inherited Neuropathies Consortium (INC).

Full description

The study protocol consists of a survey addressed to orthopaedic surgeons. The survey will be completed once and it includes two different scenarios of typical CMT patients (one adult and one child).

The orthopaedic surgeons will be asked which surgical procedures they would apply to each scenario:

forefoot cavus,
clawtoes and
hindfoot varus

No medications or therapeutic agents are a component of this project.

Enrollment

16 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Orthopaedic surgeons who perform surgical procedures for foot deformities in CMT patients attending centres participating in the Inherited Neuropatheis Consortium (INC)
Willing to complete survey

Exclusion criteria