KneeKG Sphere: Evaluation of Walking Analysis After a Total Knee Arthroplasty With Kinematic Alignment Versus Mechanical Alignment

Sponsor
Hospices Civils de Lyon (Other)
Overall Status
Recruiting
CT.gov ID
NCT04226339
Collaborator
(none)
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Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a treatment for advanced femoro-tibial osteoarthritis. This surgery is justified in case of significant discomfort and failure of medical treatment.

The functional results of TKA are good with a recovery of 6 months - 1 year. Nevertheless, very few patients forget their prostheses. A United Kingdom study assessed patient satisfaction in a cohort of 10,000 patients more than one year after TKA: nearly 20% were not satisfied with their TKA.

The knee is indeed a complex articulation that works differently in the three space plans. Current knee prostheses are trying to replicate this biomechanics and get as close as possible to the anatomy of a native knee.

Bellemans et al. found in 250 asymptomatic patients 32% of men with a constitutional varus greater than 3 ° and 17% of women. Restoration of normal knee function can also be achieved by restoring a moderate constitutional deformity present preoperatively. The objective of the femorotibial alignment was dogmatically fixed at 180° (mechanical femorotibial alignment). In recent years, some surgical teams have attempted to reproduce the preoperative constitutional deformity in varus or valgus with the prosthesis. This femorotibial alignment is called kinematic alignment. This kinematic alignment has already been studied in several randomized studies and has demonstrated improved functional scores. However, these studies focused on specific TKA, which are posterior cruciate TKA, and the assessment was subjective through functional scores. In addition, these TKA were often made with patient specific instrumentation (PSI). Some studies have evaluated walking kinematics after TKA with kinematic alignment. But it was again TKA retaining the posterior cruciate ligament.

The investigators would like to prospectively evaluate the restoration of the medially stabilized TKA walking kinematics (medial-stable TKA or ball in socket stability) implanted with a kinematic alignment compared to a mechanical alignment.

Condition or Disease Intervention/Treatment Phase
  • Procedure: total knee arthroplasty with a kinetic alignment
  • Procedure: total knee arthroplasty with a mechanical alignment
N/A

Study Design

Study Type:
Interventional
Anticipated Enrollment :
104 participants
Allocation:
Randomized
Intervention Model:
Parallel Assignment
Masking:
None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose:
Treatment
Official Title:
Evaluation of Walking Analysis After a Total Knee Arthroplasty With Kinematic Alignment Versus Mechanical Alignment
Actual Study Start Date :
Sep 7, 2020
Anticipated Primary Completion Date :
Mar 7, 2025
Anticipated Study Completion Date :
Mar 7, 2029

Arms and Interventions

Arm Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: total knee arthroplasty with a kinetic alignment

Procedure: total knee arthroplasty with a kinetic alignment
During surgery, a SPHERE prosthesis will replace the knee and the femorotibial alignment. it will be set to reproduce the preoperative constitutional deformity in varus or valgus as it was measured before surgery

Active Comparator: total knee arthroplasty with a mechanical alignment

Procedure: total knee arthroplasty with a mechanical alignment
During surgery, a SPHERE prosthesis will replace the knee and the femorotibial alignment. It will be set to 180° as defined for a mechanical femorotibial alignment

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

  1. Change of short terms walking speed. [12 months]

    Comparison between the 2 arms, of the walking speed variation between the evaluation before surgery and 1 year after total knee arthroplasty

Secondary Outcome Measures

  1. femorotibial angle in frontal plan [12 months]

    Comparison between the 2 groups of the frontal femorotibial angle measured by the KneeKG system, 12 months after total knee arthroplasty

  2. sagittal femorotibial angle [12 months]

    Comparison between the 2 groups of the sagittal femorotibial angle measured by the KneeKG system, 12 months after total knee arthroplasty

  3. tibia rotation compared to the femur [12 months]

    Comparison between the 2 groups of the tibia rotation angle compared to femur measured by the KneeKG system, 12 months after total knee arthroplasty

  4. maximal knee flexion [12 months]

    Comparison between the 2 groups of the maximal knee flexion measured by the KneeKG system, 12 months after total knee arthroplasty

  5. maximal knee extension [12 months]

    Comparison between the 2 groups of the maximal knee extension measured by the KneeKG system, 12 months after total knee arthroplasty

  6. knee range motion [12 months]

    Comparison between the 2 groups of the knee range motion measured by the KneeKG system, 12 months after total knee arthroplasty

  7. knee functional recovery [12 months]

    Comparison between the 2 groups of the knee functional recovery measured by the International Knee Society (IKS) score 12 months after total knee arthroplasty. International Knee Society score : range 0 to 200, a higher score means a better outcome

  8. Ability of the patient to forget his prosthesis [12 months]

    Comparison between the 2 groups of the patient ability to forget his knee prosthesis measured by the Forgotten Joint score (FJS) 12 months after total knee arthroplasty. Forgotten Joint Score : range 0 to 100, a higher score means a better outcome

  9. Complications [12 months]

    Comparison between the 2 groups of the proportion of patient with at least one complication including deep infections, prosthesis impairment, knee fracture, surgical revision) during the 12 months after total knee arthroplasty

  10. knee functional recovery [60 months]

    Comparison between the 2 groups of the knee functional recovery measured by the International Knee Society (IKS) score 60 months after total knee arthroplasty. International Knee Society score : range 0 to 200, a higher score means a better outcome

  11. Ability of the patient to forget his prosthesis [60 months]

    Comparison between the 2 groups of the patient ability to forget his knee prosthesis measured by the Forgotten Joint score (FJS) score 60 months after total knee arthroplasty. Forgotten Joint Score : range 0 to 100, a higher score means a better outcome

  12. Complications [60 months]

    Comparison between the 2 groups of the proportion of patient with at least one complication including deep infections, prosthesis impairment, knee fracture, surgical revision) during the 60 months after total knee arthroplasty

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:
55 Years to 80 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No
Inclusion Criteria:
  • Both sex

  • Adults between 55 and 80 years

  • Diagnosis of internal or global disabling femorotibial gonarthrosis Indication of total first knee arthroplasty (unilateral), using a Sphere type prosthesis (Medacta)

  • Constitutional deformity in varus between 3 ° and 10 °

  • Fulfilling the pass conditions of a KneeKG walking test: Unipodal support possible for 1 minute, run for 5 min at a speed of at least 0.8 km / h

  • Affiliated to a social security system

  • Patients able to understand and fulfill the requirement of the study

Exclusion Criteria:
  • TKA bilateral

  • TKA to change an Uni-compartmental prosthesis

  • History of femoral or tibial fracture

  • History of femoral or tibial osteotomy

  • Associated gesture at the same time (allograft, osteotomy)

  • External femorotibial gonarthrosis

  • Angle Hip Knee Ankle > 178 °

  • Constitutional distortion> 10 °

  • Refusal to participate in the study

  • Persons deprived of their liberty by a judicial or administrative decision, persons under psychiatric care, persons admitted to a health or social institution for purposes other than research

  • Adults subject to a legal protection measure

  • breastfeeding or pregnant women

  • Patient already participating to another clinical trial that might jeopardize the current trial

Contacts and Locations

Locations

Site City State Country Postal Code
1 Hôpital de la Croix Rousse Lyon France 69004

Sponsors and Collaborators

  • Hospices Civils de Lyon

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Sebastien Lustig, Pr, Hospices Civils de Lyon

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.
Responsible Party:
Hospices Civils de Lyon
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT04226339
Other Study ID Numbers:
  • 69HCL19_0497
  • 2019-A02288-49
First Posted:
Jan 13, 2020
Last Update Posted:
Aug 23, 2022
Last Verified:
Aug 1, 2022
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:
No
Keywords provided by Hospices Civils de Lyon

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Aug 23, 2022