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CompletedNCT00786942

Bone Graft Necessity in Opening-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy

Bone Graft Necessity in Opening-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy. A Randomized Clinical Trial

Status: Completed
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional
Enrollment: 44 (estimated)

Sponsor: University of Campinas, Brazil · Academic / Other
Sex: All
Age: 20 Years – 60 Years
Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine wether autologous bone graft from iliac crest enhances bone union of tibial osteotomies, in the treatment of varus knee deformity.

Detailed description

Opening-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy is a classic procedure,but the use of autologous bone graft from iliac crest causes pain and bleeding. Bone union occur even without bone graft, but no clinical trials compared results of the twoo procedures.

Conditions

Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	high tibial osteotomy	addition of bone graft to fill the osteotomy gap
PROCEDURE	higi tibial osteotomy	the gap of the tibia is unfilled

Timeline

Start date: 2006-04-01
Primary completion: 2008-04-01
Completion: 2009-04-01
First posted: 2008-11-06
Last updated: 2010-05-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00786942. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.