Comparison of efficacy and safety of intra-articular injection of dexmedetomidine and triamcinolone in improving knee pain and function in patients with primary knee osteoarthritis

Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences0 个研究点目标入组 60 人开始时间: 待定最近更新: 2023年10月16日

试验速览

暂无简介。

•Age over 40 years
•Presence of knee pain for more than 3 months
•Radiological findings confirming knee osteoarthritis based on American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria

•Unwillingness to participate in the study
•Patients with a history of knee surgery
•Patients with lower limb deformity and contracture
•Patients with lower limb neuromuscular disease
•Patients with acute lumbar pathology
•Injection of steroid drugs during the last two months
•History of inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis
•History of recent infection in the knee
•Breastfeeding
•Candidate patients for knee surgery
•The presence of knee deviation (Varus or valgus more than five degrees) which was confirmed by three joint view
•The presence of radicular pain
•Taking anticoagulants
•Arthritis after trauma
•History of intra-articular injection of the knee during the last 12 months
•Allergy to any of the drugs used
•Chronic systemic disease
•Psychiatric illness
•Severe osteoarthritis with grade more than III
•Cytomegalovirus infection
•Having syphilis
•Having osteomyelitis
•Drug and alcohol abuse
•Having AIDS

发起方