NCT02829463

MRI of Infrapatellar Fat Pad in Osteoarthritis

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Infrapatellar Fat Pad in Osteoarthritis and Controls

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 121 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In this study, the investigators use the clinical documentation and imaging data of MRI to do research. Clinical subjects were divided into two groups: osteoarthritis patients and healthy controls without osteoarthritis. Differences of MRI data were studied between two groups.

Detailed description

In this study, the investigators applied high precision MRI technique (with as less as a slice thickness of 0.35 mm and without inter-slice gap), and calculated not only the IPFP maximal sagittal area and IPFP volume, but also the quantitated signal, and compared the differences between healthy controls and osteoarthritis patients. This is an observational cross-sectional study without specific interventions to the subjects. MRI is a regular examination in our hospital. And all subjects are included for the reasons of osteoarthritis (need MRI) and healthy controls (pain but not osteoarthritis, also need MRI). The investigator does not assign specific interventions to the subjects of the study.

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
RADIATION	Magnetic resonance imaging	3.0 T Magnetic resonance imaging of knee joints. It does not harm the subjects.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-07-01
• Completion: 2016-07-01
• First posted: 2016-07-12
• Last updated: 2017-06-12
• Results posted: 2016-10-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China