Evaluation of the Effect of Adding Corticosteroid to Viscosupplementation

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2012-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate if the investigators can achieve better early outcomes adding triamcinolone to the viscosupplementation procedure.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo General Hospital
• Collaborator: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
• Treatments: Hyaluronic Acid; Hylan; Triamcinolone; Triamcinolone Acetonide; Triamcinolone diacetate; Triamcinolone hexacetonide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• age between 45 and 80 years

• Osteoarthritis Diagnosis with radiographic evidence

• absence of previous intraarticular knee fracture

• absence of allergy to Synvisc or Triancil

Exclusion Criteria:

• Development of Pioarthritis

• Failure to attend to the consultations