Comparison of Cruciate Retaining and Posterior Stabilized Total Knee Arthroplasty

Clinical Comparison of Cruciate Retaining and Posterior Stabilized Total Knee Arthroplasty in Same Patients

Several authors and large registries have suggested the potential for an increased risk of all-cause revision with the use of posterior cruciate-substitution (PS) total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The purpose of the current study was to compare posterior cruciate retaining (CR) and PS implants with respect to the functional and radiographic results, prevalence of osteolysis, revision rates and survivorship.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Osteoarthritis, Knee; Arthropathy of Knee Joint
• Intervention / Treatment: Procedure: Total knee replacement with cruciate retaining femoral component; Procedure: Total knee replacement with cruciate substituting femoral component

Detailed Description

The supremacy debate between posterior cruciate-retaining (CR) and posterior stabilized (PS) total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has now entered into the 4th decade. Multiple research studies have investigated CR and PS TKAs on the basis of kinematic, clinical, radiographic, and survivorship analysis. Despite arguments in favor of CR or PS TKA designs, several short or mid-term studies have shown no difference in functional outcomes between these two designs. Considering the fact that CR and PS TKA fare equally at short-term and mid-term, the decision to select either design should depend on their long-term survivorship. There have been few long-term survivorship analysis that have directly compared CR and PS TKAs with aseptic revision for any reason as the end point.

These long-term studies of CR and PS TKA have been done independently. A comparison of the results in the same patients eliminates the variability that is introduced by differences in gender, age, weight, comorbidity, bone quality, and activity level and allows for a meaningful comparison of the impact of fixation on the outcome of TKA. However, variability in terms of the preoperative severity of arthritis cannot be eliminated because of the design on both sides is rarely identical.

The purpose of this study was to identify differences in implant survivorship between CR and PS TKAs in patients with osteoarthritis who were younger than 65 years of age and CR implant in one knee and PS implant in the other.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 300
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• End-stage osteoarthritis of the knee joint requiring total knee arthroplasty with bilateral disease

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inflammatory disease
• patient with other Lower extremity disease which may affect functional outcome
• Neurologic disease effecting patients lower extremity
• Revision surgery
• Patient not medically cleared for bilateral surgery

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: CR knee; This type of total knee arthroplasty retains the posterior cruciate ligament.	Procedure: Total knee replacement with cruciate retaining femoral component; To perform the total knee replacement, the knee joint is anatomically dissected, and thin portions of bone and cartilage is resected to accommodate a metallic implants. Implants are fixed to patients' bone with bone cements. Many designs for femoral component designs are available. In the present study, two types of implants, one CR(cruciate retaining), where the posterior cruciate ligaments are retained, and one PS(Posterior cruciate substituting), where the posterior cruciate ligaments are resected, will be compared. To make the comparison more reliable, the same kind of implants will be used, so that the major portions of femoral component design remains the same and the tibial component remains the same. Only the cruciate ligament parts are different. For this arm of intervention, CR knee will be used, so posterior cruciate will remain intact after the surgery and still function to aid in the knee stability.
Active Comparator: PS knee; This type of total knee sacrifices the posterior cruciate ligament and cam and post mechanism replaces its function.	Procedure: Total knee replacement with cruciate substituting femoral component; To perform the total knee replacement, the knee joint is anatomically dissected, and thin portions of bone and cartilage is resected to accommodate metallic implants that has similar contours of a native knee. Implants are fixed to patients' bone with bone cements. This procedure will use the femoral component that sacrifice the posterior cruciate ligament and having a box area with a post, so that "cam-post" mechanism of implants can mimic the function of the posterior cruciate ligament. To make the comparison more reliable, the same kind of implants will be used, so that the major portions of femoral component remains the same. The tibial component will remain the same design. Therefore, only the cruciate ligament parts will be different.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Improvement in Knee Society Knee Score	change in knee score will be compared with initial score, until mean follow up of 25 years. The score ranges from 0 to 100, and the 100 is the highest.	Initial(one day before surgery), at 3 months after the surgery, 1 year after the surgery, and then average 1 year after until the study completion

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Improvement in the Range of motion	change in the range of motion of knee joint will be compared with the initial value, until mean follow up of 25 years.The range of motion for knee typically are around 0 degrees to 130 degrees, and more range is considered as a better outcome.	Initial(one day before surgery), and at 3 months after the surgery, 1 year after the surgery, and then average 1year after surgery until the study completion.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Ewha Womans University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Young Hoo Kim, MD, Professor

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2004
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 30, 2006
• Study Completion (Actual): May 16, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 23, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 4, 2023
• First Posted (Estimated): November 9, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): November 9, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 4, 2023
• Last Verified: November 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Joint Diseases; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Rheumatic Diseases; Arthritis; Osteoarthritis; Osteoarthritis, Knee
• Other Study ID Numbers: tka_cr_ps

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No