Clinical Outcome After Treating Cartilage Defects in the Knee by Surgical or Conservative Means
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Lesion of Joint Capsule of Knee Region
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Ghent
- Enrollment
- 40
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Questionnaires to decide which intervention will be performed.
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 3 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The hypothesis of this study is to investigate whether surgical intervention is necessary for patients who suffer from cartilage lesions of the knee, or whether this surgical intervention can be avoided or postponed by using conservative treatment options such as physiotherapy, nutrition supplements, intra-articular injections, bracing.
Forty patients suffering from cartilage lesions in their knee joint will be selected preoperatively. All these patients fulfil certain inclusion- and exclusion criteria. They will be asked to respond to 3 different questionnaires. These questionnaires include the visual analogue scale to evaluate pain (VAS), the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score or KOOS and the International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) form to evaluate the effect of their cartilage lesion on activities in daily life. Six months later +/- 20 patients will have had surgery and +/- 20 patients will have had conservative treatment, both groups of patients will be asked to respond again to the 3 different questionnaires. The outcome of the results will tell us more of the evolution both between groups and in each group separately.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Symptomatic single cartilage lesions of the femur condyles
- •Size of the lesion, determined by MRI:
- •between 1-2 cm² for the group who will receive conservative treatment between 2-5 cm² for the group who will have surgery
- •Mechanical joint pain, assessed by a 100 mm Visual Analogue Scale: \> 40 mm for the conservative group, \> 60 mm for the operative group
- •Agree to stop using analgetics and NSAID's 2 weeks before the First respond of the surveys, and 2 weeks before the second respond of the surveys. Only paracetamol (4g/day) is allowed.
- •men and women, women have to use contraceptive to avoid pregnancies.
- •age between 18 - 50 years
Exclusion Criteria
- •participation in concurrent trials
- •participation in previous trials within 3 months
- •subjects with HIV, hepatitis, syphilis
- •malignancy
- •alcohol and drug abuse
- •poor general health condition as judged by the investigator
- •osteochondritis dissecans
- •advanced osteoarthritis (kellgren 2-4)
- •known allergy to penicillins and gentamicin or presence of multiple severe allergies
- •complex ligamentous instability of the knee
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Questionnaires to decide which intervention will be performed.
Time Frame: At day 1
The questionnaires include the visual analogue scale to evaluate pain (VAS), the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score or KOOS and the International Knee Documentation Committee subjective knee form (IKDC) to evaluate the effect of their cartilage lesion on activities in daily life
Secondary Outcomes
- Questionnaires to measure patient satisfaction.(At 6 months)