Ultrasound Guided Median Nerve Hydrodissection Using Dextrose

Iraqi Board of medical specialties

Status: Completed

Conditions: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Treatments: Procedure: dextrose 5% median nerve hydrodissection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05725460

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Details and patient eligibility

About

to compare the efficacy of dextrose 5% with steroid hydrodissection in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome

Full description

in some cases there is prohibition to use steroid with example the patient rejection to use steroid the maneuver planned median nerve hydrodissection using ultrasound and 10 mld of dextrose 5%, unleash the median nerve for the surrounding structure and short follow up planned to be 2 weeks

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

severe carpal tunnel syndrome failed medical management -

Exclusion criteria

previous failed surgery previous failed injection previous failed trial of hydrodissection cervical or brachial nerve entrapment wrist osteoarthritis or rheumatoid pregnant diabetes mellitus

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

dextrose 5%

Experimental group

Description:

10 mls of dextrose under ultrasound to separate the median nerve from adjacent structures

Treatment:

Procedure: dextrose 5% median nerve hydrodissection

steroid

Active Comparator group

Description:

10 mls of steroid used to separate the median nerve from adjacent structures

Treatment:

Procedure: dextrose 5% median nerve hydrodissection