Status:

UNKNOWN

Joint Microbiome Study for the Knee

Lead Sponsor:

Rothman Institute Orthopaedics

Conditions:

Knee Osteoarthritis

PJI

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a devastating complication following arthroplasty. An utmost effort has been done to clarify risk factors and microbiology of PJI. We now know the most frequent inf...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • All patients 18 years or older who give verbal and written informed consent for the retrieval of experimental samples and data collection.
  • Group A: Subjects with lack of Osteoarthritis (OA) evidence, invasive examinations, minor procedures, cartilage damage, and/or synovitis in joints.
  • Group B: Patients undergoing primary knee arthroplasty (partial or total).
  • Group C: Contralateral non-affected (native) joint without knee arthroplasty, history of septic arthritis (SA), invasive examinations and/or minor procedures.
  • Group D: Patients undergoing aseptic knee revision surgery.
  • Group E: Patients undergoing septic knee revision surgery

Exclusion

  • Withdrawal of informed consent, suspicion of PJI, surgical site infection (SSI) or septic arthritis (SA) before samples retrieval, use of antibiotics within 4 weeks before collecting the samples (not including perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis), inflammatory arthritis, systemic rheumatic disorder, high risk of infection.
  • Group A: History and/or suspicion before/at samples retrieval of SA in native joint.
  • Group B: History and/or suspicion before/at samples retrieval of SSI or SA in the affected joint.
  • Group C: No additional criterion.
  • Group D: History and/or suspicion before/at samples retrieval of PJI, SSI, SA in the affected joint
  • Group E: No additional criterion.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 20 2022

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

February 28 2023

Estimated Enrollment :

100 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT05254145

Start Date

February 20 2022

End Date

February 28 2023

Last Update

February 24 2022

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Rothman Orthopaedic Institute

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107