A clinical trial to study the effects of genicular artery embolization, in which the blood vessels supplying the diseased knee are blocked using a minimally invasive angiography-based technique, and compare it with standard therapy, in the patients suffering from osteoarthritis of the knee
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/09/045508
- Lead Sponsor
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences Patna
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Radiographically proven knee osteoarthritis in either sex of age more than 18 years with any radiological grade
Patients not responding to conservative management after 6 weeks of initial diagnosis of osteoarthritis on radiographs
Patients deemed unfit for surgery or unwilling for surgery for knee osteoarthritis
Poor general condition precluding digital subtraction angiography and embolization under local anesthesia for approximately 2 hours duration
Prior surgery in the knee joint
Intra-articular injections (steroid, platelet rich plasma or hyaluronic acid, or any such therapy) within 6 weeks of the enrollment in the trial
Current or prior infection or trauma to the knee
Life expectancy less than 6 months
Known advanced atherosclerosis (plaque that builds within the vessels that lead blood to the heart)
Rheumatoid or infectious arthritis
Iodine allergy
Kidney disease
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
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