Clinical trial NCT01012063: Perioperative Iron With Erythropoietin in Bilateral Total Knee Replacement Arthroplasty (TKRA)
Official title: Perioperative Intravenous Iron With Erythropoietin for the Prevention of Postoperative Severe Anemia and Reduction of Transfusion in Bilateral Total Knee Replacement Arthroplasty
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Anemia
Transfusion
Keywords: iron
erythropoietin
hemoglobin
Total knee replacement arthroplasty
Lead sponsor: Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2009-11-11
Enrollment: 54
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 50
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The object of this study is to evaluate whether low dose intravenous iron and erythropoietin (Epo) can decrease transfusion requirement after the bilateral TKRA.

Detailed description: Total knee replacement arthroplasty (TKRA) in severe osteoarthritis usually requires extensive soft tissue and bone dissection associated with substantial bleeding. Because TKRA is performed with a pneumatic tourniquet, intraoperative bleeding is not substantial, however, over 80% of the total blood loss occurs within the first 24 hour after the operation and the hidden blood loss is 50% of the total loss, making the true blood loss twice. Consequently, many patients can become anemic at early postoperative period and this anemic condition may lead to overall physical deterioration which include fatigue, dizziness, reduced exercise tolerance and delayed recovery.

Therefore, many patients frequently received the autologous or allogenic blood transfusion. In order to reduce the allogenic blood transfusion (ABT), various methods have been used, such as preoperative autologous blood donation (PABD), use of pharmacologic agents, iron or erythropoietin (Epo) and postoperative blood salvage. All of the above methods have been proved to reduce the ABT effectively6, without increase in cost.

Iron and Epo have been used widely in a variety of clinical situations instead of allogenic RBC transfusion. They also have been used for augmenting PABD or improving preoperative hemoglobin (Hb) level. However, there still remains a controversy about the efficacy of the method on the postoperative anemia. We think that these various results may be related with individual iron state of the patients and dose of drug or timing of drug application.

In this trial, iron and Epo are planned to be administered to the iron deficient non anemic patients during the operation and once again after surgery.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Female patients undergoing bilateral total knee replacement arthroplasty
* American society of anesthesiologist class 1-3
* Hb\>100 g/L
* Either serum ferritin\<100 ng/ml or 100\<ferritin\<300 ng/ml with a transferrin saturation (TSAT) \<20%

Exclusion Criteria:

* Hematologic disease
* Thromboembolic disease
* Hepatic or renal disease
* Coagulation disorder
* Infection
* Malignancy
* Under anticoagulant therapy
* Hypersensitivity to iron sucrose or Epo
* Preoperative autologous blood donation
* Use of iron or Epo and blood transfusion within the previous 1 month

Primary outcomes:
measure: postoperative hemoglobin
timeFrame: postoperative 1, 2, 3, 5 day and 2, 6 week
Secondary outcomes:
measure: serum iron, ferritin, total iron binding capacity (TIBC) and transferrin saturation (TSAT)
timeFrame: preoperation and postoperation
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Seongnam
country: Korea, Republic of
facility: Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
state: Gyeonggi
Study officials:
affiliation: Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
name: Hyoseok Na, pf
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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