Conditions: Osteoarthritis
Keywords: osteoarthritis knee corticosteroids ultrasound
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 79
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
A study using characteristics on ultrasound to predict response to intraarticular steroid injections in patients with knee osteoarthritis. The hypothesis is that patients with inflammation on ultrasound will have a better response to corticosteroid injections compared to patients without inflammation.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: 40 mg of intraarticular triamcinolone acetonide arm 2: Intraarticular injection of 0.9% saline

Interventions: intervention 1: triamcinolone acetonide intervention 2: saline
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: single intraarticular injection of 40 mg of triamcinolone acetonide intervention 2: Single intraarticular injection of 1 ml of 0.9% saline

Protocol document: