NCT00821873

Evaluation of the CR Plug for Repair of Defects Created at the Harvest Site From an Autograft in the Knee.

Evaluation of the Composite of Cancellous and Demineralized Bone Plug (CR Plug) for Repair of Defects Created at the Harvest Site During the Osteochondral Autograft Transfer System(OATS)Procedure

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 9 (actual)
• Sponsor: RTI Surgical · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main objective of this study is to test the ability of an allograft plug to provide a successful repair of an osteochondral defect left at the harvest site during OATS procedure.

Detailed description

The objective of this study is to determine how effective a plug made out of human bone (called "CR-Plug") will be in the treatment at the site that your tissue was removed, thereby filling the hole created during the OATS procedure.At the present, OATS is used for knee articular cartilage defects or injuries smaller than the size of a dime (or 2.5 cm2) in the areas that bear weight have been commonly treated by using a tiny cylinder of the subjects' own tissue called an osteochondral autograft (OATS).

Conditions

• Knee Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	CR Plug	CR Plug will be placed in the harvest site

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-12-01
• Primary completion: 2012-07-01
• Completion: 2012-07-01
• First posted: 2009-01-14
• Last updated: 2013-11-28
• Results posted: 2013-11-06

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States