NCT01122017

A Modified (Retro-Tubercle) Opening Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy Versus the Conventional Technique

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 72 (actual)
• Sponsor: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The present study was conducted among a group of Iranian patients suffering from varus knee in order to compare advantages and disadvantages of ROWHTO (Retro-Tubercle Opening Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy) technique when compared with previously described approaches of opening-wedge osteotomy.

Detailed description

There are various methods for correcting varus deformity; therefore the best surgical method must be individualized. We concluded that in a varus knee where only correction in the coronal plane without patella infra, changes in Q- angle, tibial plateau inclination is all that is needed, a retro- tubercle medial opening- wedge osteotomy is the preferred approach.

Conditions

• Genu Varum

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Retro-Tubercle Opening-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy	Retro-Tubercle Opening-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy (ROWHTO) is among the latest approaches for the treatment of varus deformity of knee.

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-01-01
• Primary completion: 2008-02-01
• Completion: 2008-11-01
• First posted: 2010-05-12
• Last updated: 2010-05-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Iran