The ACTIVE Trial: A Prospective Randomised Control Trial Of The H1 Implant Versus Total Hip Replacement (ACTIVE)

The goal of this randomised controlled trial is to compare the success of two types of hip replacement in patients with hip arthritis. The main question it aims to answer is whether a new type of hip replacement (called a hip resurfacing) can be as successful as an existing hip replacement (called a total hip replacement). Patients will be given either the new hip resurfacing or the existing total hip replacement and researchers will compare their function, complication rate and physical activity.

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Inflammatory Arthritis; Osteoarthritis, Hip
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: The H1 Implant; Device: Cementless total hip replacement

Detailed Description

The H1 Implant is a cementless, ceramic hip resurfacing arthroplasty (HRA) device. The intended purpose of the H1 Implant is to provide an artificial substitute for a disease-damaged hip joint to replace the articulating surfaces of the hip while preserving the underlying femoral head and natural femoral neck. This is standard for a resurfacing hip prosthesis. This study will randomise patients to receive either The H1 Implant or a primary cementless ceramic-on-poly or ceramic-on-ceramic total hip replacement (THR). Composite clinical success (CCS) scores, physical activity levels and patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) will be compared for the two groups. The primary objective of the study is to determine whether the H1 Implant is non-inferior to cementless THR in terms of CCS. The key secondary objective is to determine whether the H1 Implant is superior compared to cementless THR in terms of physical activity and PROMs. Other secondary objectives are to compare the H1 Implant and THR with respect to: safety, through collection of all device-related, operative site-related and systemic adverse events; and noise generation, through patient survey.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 200
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Camilla Halewood, PhD; Phone Number: +442075943600; Email: camilla.halewood@embody-ortho.com
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Mariam Al-Laith, PhD; Phone Number: +442075943600; Email: m.al-laith@imperial.ac.uk

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient requires unilateral primary hip arthroplasty due to primary osteoarthritis, osteoarthritis secondary to e.g. trauma, avascular necrosis or developmental hip dysplasia, or inflammatory arthritis.
• Patient is willing to comply with study requirements.
• Patient plans to be available through 10 years postoperative follow-up.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient has a BMI greater than 40 kg/m².
• Patient has active infection or sepsis (treated or untreated).
• Patient has insufficient bone stock at the hip (>1/3 necrosis of the femoral head or large and multiple cysts) or in general as in severe osteopenia or osteoporosis (t-score < -2.5 as measured with BMD).
• Patient is not skeletally mature.
• Patient meets the contraindication criteria of the control device.
• Patient already has another lower limb arthroplasty or arthrodesis or will require a further lower limb arthroplasty or arthrodesis within the subsequent 2 years.
• Patient lacks capacity to consent.
• Patient is unable to understand the native language of the country where their procedure is taking place

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Triple

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: The H1 Implant; Cementless, ceramic-on-ceramic hip resurfacing arthroplasty (HRA) device.	Device: The H1 Implant; Patients allocated to The H1 Implant arm will be implanted with the H1 Implant which is a cementless, ceramic hip resurfacing device.
Active Comparator: Cementless total hip replacement; Cementless ceramic-on-poly or ceramic-on-ceramic total hip replacement	Device: Cementless total hip replacement; Patients allocated to cementless total hip replacement arm will be implanted with a cementless ceramic-on-poly or ceramic-on-ceramic total hip replacement

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Composite clinical success (CCS)	The primary outcome is "composite clinical success". This is a binary outcome measure. Patients are deemed to have achieved CCS if they meet all of the following criteria at the 24 month timepoint: Modified Harris Hip Score ≥80.; No revision or pending revision.; Acetabular radiolucencies: not in all zones.; Femoral radiolucencies: not in all zones.; Absence of subsidence/migration of the acetabular or femoral component >5mm with clinical findings.; Absence of specific adverse device effects (ADEs) that are pre-cursors to revision of the device, namely:Bone breakage around the implanted component(s) (periprosthetic fracture).Breakage of the device component.Device movement/migration of clinical consequence as defined by associated clinical findings as: a limp; leg length discrepancy; and restricted range of motion.Dislocation of the hip joint.	24 months post-operatively

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Physical Activity	Average daily minutes of activity and mean bouted daily moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), minutes	6 months, 12 months and 24 months post-operatively
Physical Activity	Physical performance assessment: number of chair stands in 30 seconds and time taken to perform stair climb test	Pre-operatively, 6 months, 12 months and 24 months post-operatively
Physical Activity	Hip Outcome Score (HOS) Questionnaire	Pre-operatively, 6 months, 12 months and 24 months post-operatively
Physical Activity	UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) Activity Score	Pre-operatively, 6 months, 12 months and 24 months post-operatively
Noise	Noise questionnaire	6 weeks, 6 months, 12 months and 24 months post-operatively

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Embody Orthopaedic Limited
• Collaborators: Imperial College London; National Institute for Health Research, United Kingdom
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Justin Cobb, Prof, Imperial College London

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Estimated): September 1, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): April 1, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): April 1, 2035

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 29, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 6, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): December 8, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): December 8, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 6, 2023
• Last Verified: December 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Hip; Ceramic; Resurfacing
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Joint Diseases; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Rheumatic Diseases; Osteoarthritis; Arthritis; Osteoarthritis, Hip
• Other Study ID Numbers: 327954

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

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