Total Knee Arthroplasty in Conjunction With Intra-operative Genicular Nerve Radio-Frequency Ablation, A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Ain Shams University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Functional Outcome

Post Operative Pain

Treatments

Procedure: Genicular nerve radiofrequency ablation

Procedure: Total knee arthroplasty

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT07381062

FMASU MD39/2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to compare between conventional Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) and Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) combined with intra-operative Genicular Nerve Radio-Frequency Ablation (GNRFA), concerning post-operative functional outcome and pain scores in patients with advanced knee osteoarthritis

Full description

Including 70 knees randomized using a computer-generated sequence into two groups, the first group underwent TKA combined with GNRFA, and the other group underwent TKA only. All the TKA surgeries were performed by a single surgeon including patients aged from fifty to eighty years with advanced primary knee osteoarthritis from both sexes

Enrollment

70 patients

Sex

All

Ages

50 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with advanced knee osteoarthritis
Both sexes
Age from 50-80 years old

Exclusion criteria

Patients underwent previous GNRFA
Patients underwent previous knee surgery
patients requiring constrained knee arthroplasty prosthesis (with extreme deformities)