Computer Aided Gap Balancing Improves Sagittal Stability and Outcomes for Cruciate-Retaining Total Knee Arthroplasty

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
• Main ID: NCT00865865
• Date of registration: 17/03/2009
• Primary sponsor: Singapore General Hospital
• Public title: Computer Aided Gap Balancing Improves Sagittal Stability and Outcomes for Cruciate-Retaining Total Knee Arthroplasty
• Scientific title: Computer Aided Gap Balancing Improves Sagittal Stability and Outcomes for Cruciate-Retaining Total Knee Arthroplasty- 2-Year Results of a Prospective Randomised Trial
• Date of first enrolment: May 2006
• Target sample size: 140
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00865865
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Contacts

• Name: SENG-JIN YEO, FRCS
• Affiliation: Singapore General Hospital

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- primary osteoarthritis of the knee

Exclusion Criteria:

- rheumatoid arthritis, previous knee surgery, infection and those who could not be
treated with unconstrained cruciate retaining TKA and a short stem tibial implant



Age minimum: 50 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Osteoarthritis of the Knee

Intervention(s)

Procedure: Computer aided total knee arthroplasty

Procedure: Conventional total knee arthroplasty

Primary Outcome(s)

Sagittal stability of knee [Time Frame: 2 YEARS]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Functional status of postoperative patients [Time Frame: 2 YEARS]

Secondary ID(s)

#48/2006

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors