Osteoarthritis
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients who visited the department of orthopaedic surgery of Nippon Medical School are considered for trial recruitment. Eligibility criteria also includes an age of at least 20 years and any of following criteria. (1) Patients with Kellgren-Lawrence classifications III-IV knee OA who take arthrocentesis of knee in outpatient clinic and whose pain VAS score is less than 50mm (2) Patients without knee OA who take arthroscopic surgery and whose pain VAS score is less than 50mm (3) Patients with knee OA who take knee replacement
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: (1) Patients who do not consent for this research (2) Patients who have psychiatric disorder (3) Patients who can not answer questionnaire for pain due to dementia and others
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Correlation of miR-21 expression in synovium and synovial fluid of OA patients and Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score(KOOS) Pain Score | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| (1) Correlation of miR-21 expression in synovium and synovial fluid of OA patients and Pain VAS score (2) miR-21 expression of each group | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Nippon Medical School Department of Orthopaedic Surgery