NCT01242085

Preoperative Alignment of Total Knee Replacement

Alignment of Total Knee Components Using Standard or Custom Instrumentation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (actual)
• Sponsor: VA Palo Alto Health Care System · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The hypothesis of this study is that total knee alignment will be improved by preoperative planning from CT scans and the production of custom instruments compared to the use of standard instruments.

Detailed description

Patients will be randomized to have either customized knee instruments or standard generic instrumentation for primary total knee replacement. Postoperative CT scan will be used to determine alignment of each group.

Conditions

• Knee Arthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	trumatch group	these patient will have CT based customized knee instruments used for surgery
PROCEDURE	control group	these patients will have standard instrumentation used for for knee replacement

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-11-01
• Primary completion: 2012-05-01
• Completion: 2013-01-01
• First posted: 2010-11-16
• Last updated: 2013-05-14
• Results posted: 2013-05-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States