This is a Study to Verify if Periarticular Hip Injection of Corticosteroid After Hip Replacement Reduce the Pain and the Hospitalisation Time

Recruiting now · Phase 4

Conditions studied: Femoral Neck Fractures

In brief

The investigators are going to evaluate if periarticular corticosteroid injection during endoprothesis implantation can lead to any advantage to the patients, namely if it can reduce post-operative pain, lenght and cost of hospitalisation, use of analgesics drugs.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05023369

Run by

Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona

People needed

110

Starts

2021-12-10

Expected to finish

2026-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-05

Who can join

Age: 50 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients undergoing unilateral cemented hip endoprosthesis for femoral neck fracture
• Patients aged 50-90 years old
• Patients with a BMI >18.5 and <35
• Patients able to provide informed consent and follow all the study procedures as indicated by the protocol
• Informed Consent as documented by signature

You may not qualify if…

• Contraindications to steroids
• Revision endoprosthesis
• Active steroid or immunosuppressive therapy in the last 30 days before the operation
• Pregnant or breast-feeding women
• Presence of other clinically significant concomitant disease states (ASA IV)
• Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus
• Contraindications to NSAIDs
• Chronic systemic diseases as immunodeficiency, autoimmune disease (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, SLE), gout, rheumatic arthritis
• Known or suspected non-compliance, drug or alcohol abuse
• Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. due to language problems, psychological disorders, dementia, etc. of the participant.
• Participation in another study with investigational drug within the 30 days preceding and during the present study
• Previous enrolment into the current study
• Enrolment of the investigator, his/her family members, employees and other dependent persons.

Where it is running

• Christian Candrian — Lugano, Switzerland (enrolling)

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