Approach Modification for Total Knee Arthroplasty in Morbidly Obese Patients

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Obesity, Morbid; Arthropathy; Incision, Surgical
• Interventions: Procedure: Small curved incision with apex lateral

• Registration Number: NCT05840705
• Lead Sponsor: Ain Shams University

Brief Summary

The study provides a detailed description of a smaller incision with better visualization in total knee arthroplasty operations

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-01-01
• Primary Completion: 2022-12-31
• Study First Submitted: 2023-01-01
• Status Verified: 2023-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-04-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-04-30
• Study First Posted: 2023-05-03
• Last Update Posted: 2023-05-03
• Study Completion: 2023-06-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• Morbid obese patients with body mass index more than 45 requiring total knee arthroplasty for any cause

Exclusion Criteria

• candidates not meeting the inclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Total knee arthroplasty	Small curved incision with apex lateral	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
length of skin incision	7 years	lenght of skin incision in centimeters
Functional outcomes	3 years	Knee society score
operative time	7 years	Oprative time in minutes

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
wound complications	7 years	Any reported wound complications
wound infection	7 years	No of patients with wound infection
revision rate	7 years	no. of patients requiring revision
Range of motion	7 years	Range of knee flexion and extension in degrees

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ahmed Saeed; 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt