NCT05137080

Dexamethasone and Functional Outcome After TKA

Dexamethasone and Functional Outcome After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A 2 Year Follow up of the DEX-2-TKA-trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 162 (actual)
• Sponsor: Slagelse Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients previously included in the DEX-2-TKA-trial (ethics committee ID SJ-695; ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03506789) at Næstved Hospital will be invited for a follow up study consisting of questionnaires and a visit with a physical therapist. The study includes the following validated questionnaires: EQ-5D-5L, Oxford Knee Score and PainDetect, and information on height, weight, daily pain-medication and co-morbidities. With the physical therapist, the patient will perform the following functional tests: knee range of motion, timed-up-to-go, 30 second chair stand test, 40m fast paced walk test, stair climb test and a measure of the thigh force.

Conditions

• Chronic Knee Pain
• Dexamethasone
• Total Knee Arthroplasty

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Dexamethasone	24mg dexamethasone
DRUG	Isotonic saline	Isotonic saline

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-15
• Primary completion: 2022-06-07
• Completion: 2022-06-08
• First posted: 2021-11-30
• Last updated: 2022-10-06

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Denmark