Ultrasound and X-ray in Detecting Articular Cartilage Calcification

Chondrocalcinosis Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Concordance Entre l'échographie du Genou et la Radiographie Standard Dans la détection Des Calcifications Dans le Cadre de la Chondrocalcinose Articulaire

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00797537
• Other study ID #: I07027/chondrocalcinose
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 20, 2008
• Last updated: September 3, 2010
• Start date: May 2008
• Est. completion date: September 2010

Study information

• Verified date: September 2010
• Source: University Hospital, Limoges
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: France: Direction Générale de la Santé
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Prospective study with an echography of the 2 knees and radiography of the 2 knees (front and profile) for each patient. If found calcification on ultrasound further examination with ultrasound wrists, hips and shoulders.

Description:

Osteo-articular echography is currently recognized as an important development among rheumatologists.

Chondrocalcinosis, which can promote joint inflammation and cartilage degeneration, is highly prevalent in elderly subjects.

Osteo-articular echography is currently reconized as an important development among rheumatologists and can efficiently use to detect Chondrocalcinosis.

The aim of this study is to find a correlation between radiography and echography in detecting CPPD crystal deposition, on a sample of patients and more important with a new generation of ultrasound with a probe superficial performance.

166 patients will be enrolled in this trial and an echography and a radiography of the 2 knees (front and profile) will be done for each patient.

Ih the echography show a calcification, further exams with wrists, hips shoulders echographies will be conducted.

In case of liquid epanchement, analysis of the liquid will be carried in order to eliminate the differential diagnostic including septic arthritis

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 166
• Est. completion date: September 2010
• Est. primary completion date: September 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 70 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• patient> 70 years

• articular pathology of the knee

• consent signed

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not covered by social security

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Diagnostic

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Articular Cartilage Calcification
• Calcinosis
• Chondrocalcinosis

Intervention

Procedure:
• Echography
Echography

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Service de Rhumatologie	Limoges

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Limoges

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Knee calcification detected by echography and radiography		Day 1	No
Secondary	Calcification description and other localisations finding		Day 1	No