Clinical trial NCT00589108: Comparison of A Mobile-Bearing Total Knee System With A Fixed-Bearing Total Knee System In Cemented Total Knee Arthroplasty
Official title: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Study Comparing A Mobile-Bearing Total Knee System With A Fixed-Bearing Total Knee System In Cemented Total Knee Arthroplasty
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Degenerative Joint Disease
Keywords: knee arthroplasty
Lead sponsor: Mayo Clinic
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2008-01-09
Enrollment: 240
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 40
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Pain, weakness, instability, and progressive dysfunction are the hallmarks of arthritis of the knee. Total knee replacement may frequently be the only therapeutic intervention to provide adequate improvement in pain and function. Both fixed bearing and mobile bearing knees have a long track record of clinical success. Mobile bearing designs have theoretical advantages of decreased contact stresses on the tibial tray, decreased polyethylene wear, and improved range of motion relative to fixed bearing designs. These theoretical advantages may become especially important in the young patient who requires a knee arthroplasty. This study will attempt to see if there is a clinical difference in outcome between mobile bearing and fixed bearing knee arthroplasties in patients who require total knee replacement.

Detailed description: This prospective, randomized, single-blinded clinical trial compared a mobile-bearing total knee system with two types of fixed-bearing total knee systems in patients undergoing cemented total knee arthroplasty. The devices to be used are FDA approved: the Sigma Knee System (mobile-bearing), the Sigma, Pressfit Condylar posterior cruciate substituting (fixed-bearing) system with a metal backed tibial tray, and the Sigma press-fit condylar posterior cruciate substituting system (fixed bearing) with an all polyethylene tibial tray.

The surgical procedures were performed by 4 experienced orthopedic surgeons with a subspecialty interest in total knee arthroplasty. A midline skin incision and medial parapatellar arthrotomy were used to expose the knee. The distal femoral resection was performed with an intramedullary alignment guide, and the proximal tibial resection was performed with an extramedullary alignment guide. Knees with fixed deformities had a surgical release of the contracted tissues on the medial or lateral side, as appropriate, to obtain symmetric balance of the total knee replacement in both flexion and extension. The flexion and extension gaps and the medial and lateral soft-tissue structures were balanced in accordance with standard techniques.

Patients began progressive weight-bearing on the first postoperative day, and active knee range of motion was initiated with 24 hours after surgery. Patients were typically discharged on the fourth or fifth postoperative day after obtaining the ability to walk with a walker, to ascend several stairs, and to flex the knee 290 degrees. Patients were asked to return for examination and radiographs at 3 months, 1 year, 2 years, and 5 years after surgery.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients undergoing unilateral primary knee surgery for degenerative joint disease (DJD).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Severe deformity greater than or equal to 20 degrees varus, valgus malalignment
* Osteomyelitis, septicemia, or other active infections that may spread to other areas of the body
* The presence of infections, highly communicable diseases, e.g., AIDS, active tuberculosis, venereal disease, hepatitis
* Significant neurological or musculoskeletal disorders or disease that may adversely affect normal gait or weight bearing
* Metastatic disease
* Any congenital, developmental, or other bone disease or previous knee surgery that may, in the surgeon's judgement, interfere with total knee prosthesis survival or success, e.g., Paget's disease, Charcot's disease secondary to diabetes, severe osteoporosis, previous high tibial osteotomy, etc.
* Presence of previous prosthetic knee replacement device (any type)
* Arthrodesis of the affected knee
* Patients not requiring patella resurfacing.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Maximum Knee Flexion
timeFrame: 2 years post-surgery, 5 years post-surgery
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Knee Society Function Score
timeFrame: 5 years post surgery
measure: Knee Society Pain Score
timeFrame: 5 years post-surgery
measure: Knee Society Stair Climbing Score
timeFrame: two years post-surgery, five years post-surgery
measure: Percentage of Knees Surviving at 5 Years
timeFrame: 5 years post-surgery
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Rochester
country: United States
facility: Mayo Clinic
state: Minnesota
Study officials:
affiliation: Mayo Clinic
name: Robert T Trousdale, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Kalisvaart MM, Pagnano MW, Trousdale RT, Stuart MJ, Hanssen AD. Randomized clinical trial of rotating-platform and fixed-bearing total knee arthroplasty: no clinically detectable differences at five years. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2012 Mar 21;94(6):481-9. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.K.00315.