Chronic Pain, Inflammation and Infection After Joint Replacement
CompletedNCT02177097
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Revision surgery after total hip or knee arthroplasty is an ongoing issue due to an increasing number of primary surgeries. Patients seek physicians due to pain. The cause is divided between loosening, infection or chronic pain. Some are operated on the suspicion of a chronic infection. However, postoperative microbiological testing does not always correlate with the suspicion and the operation may have been superfluous. The objective is to employ a highly advanced diagnostic algorithm based on state of the art diagnostic techniques in order to improve the basis of preoperative diagnosis. Through this approach treatment can be given according to the causal problem.
Study details
- Official title
- Extended Biochemical Analysis and Bacteriologic Diagnosis in Patients With Loose Joint Replacements, Chronic Pain and Infection.
- Conditions
- Infection and Inflammatory Reaction
- Joint Prosthesis
- Interventions
- Biological: Blood samples
- Sponsor
- Northern Orthopaedic Division, Denmark
- Collaborators
- The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Denmark; University of Aarhus
- Start date
- 2010-01
- Primary completion
- 2013-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 80 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Denmark
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients undergoing primary uncemented total hip-joint replacement surgery * Patients undergoing primary hybrid total hip-joint replacement surgery * Patients undergoing total knee-joint replacement surgery Exclusion Criteria: * Patients younger than 18 years old * Unability to speak or read Danish * Pregnancy or lactating * Bilateral disease * Cancer * Inability to give informed consent
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02177097