NCT03675295

Efficacy of Hyalase Hydro-dissection in Treatment of Carpal Tunnel: Randomized Double Blind Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Assiut University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a common peripheral entrapment neuropathy, this study aims to investigate if, and to what extent hydro-dissection hyalase and saline of the median nerve could offer symptoms and clinical improvement

Detailed description

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common compression syndrome the upper extremities. Its problem has a high prevalence ranged estimated prevalence of 3.8% in the general population, 3 and 7.8% in the working population. It occurs at any age, especially in individuals in their 40s to 60s, and the male: female ratio is reported to be 3:7. A lot of treatment modalities have been tried to improve the condition, starting from local anesthetic injection, steroid, and up to surgical decompression of the nerves.

Conditions

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Hyalase	injection of Hyalase + 10 cc saline injection nearby median nerve as hydro-dissection
DRUG	Saline	injection of 10 cc saline injection nearby median nerve as hydro-dissection

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-04-02
• Primary completion: 2018-03-20
• Completion: 2018-07-01
• First posted: 2018-09-18
• Last updated: 2018-09-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt