A 3-arm Multi-center, Randomized Controlled Study Comparing Transforaminal Corticosteroid, Transforaminal Etanercept and Transforaminal Saline for Lumbosacral Radiculopathy
Completed · Phase 2/Phase 3
Conditions studied: Lumbosacral Radiculopathy
In brief
Lumbosacral radiculopathy is one of the leading of cause of disability in the U.S. and worldwide. Among recent reviews evaluating epidural steroid injections, some 1 but not all 2 concluded them to be effective in the long-term. In our own double-blind, placebo-controlled study evaluating epidural etanercept, the results showed significant benefit in favor of the etanercept group, but no subject was included with a duration of pain \> 9 months, and the results of this study have yet to be replicated. Currently, epidural steroid injections are the most frequently performed procedures in pain clinics across the U.S. However, epidural steroids may benefit only a select group of patients. The literature on treating sciatica is notable for a lack of randomized comparative studies involving various treatments. The objective of this project is to conduct a 3-arm study to determine the efficacy of 1) transforaminal epidural corticosteroids; and 2) transforaminal epidural etanercept, in patients with lumbosacral radiculopathy.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00733096
- Run by
- Johns Hopkins University
- People needed
- 84
- Starts
- 2008-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2011-03-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2012-10-08
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Chronic low back pain of radicular origin of > 4 weeks but < 6 months duration.
- Leg pain > back pain.
- Failure of conservative therapy to include physical and pharmacotherapy.
- MRI evidence of a lateral or paracentral herniated disc corresponding to the patient's radicular symptoms.
You may not qualify if…
- Uncontrolled coagulopathy.
- Pregnancy, which will be ruled out by a urine pregnancy test in women of childbearing age.
- Allergy to contrast dye or amide local anesthetics.
- Previous epidural steroid injection within last year.
- Unstable medical or psychiatric condition (e.g. unstable angina, congestive heart failure or severe depression) that could preclude an optimal treatment response.
- Rheumatoid arthritis or spondylarthropathy.
- Unstable neurological condition (e.g. multiple sclerosis)
- Systemic infection
Where it is running
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
- Womack Army Medical Center — Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States
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