Optimal Management of Extreme Obesity and Severe Knee Osteoarthritis Feasibility Trial
Recruiting now NCT05120492
Run by Nova Scotia Health Authority · for 18 to 65 · All sexes · accepts healthy volunteers
What this study is about
Does weight loss surgery in patients with morbid obesity prior to knee replacement surgery improve outcomes from knee replacement surgery
Who can join (things the study team will check)
Inclusion Criteria: severe knee osteoarthritis body-mass index of 45 to 60 Exclusion Criteria: previous total replacement of the same knee, a need for bilateral total knee replacement, and knee pain during the previous week that the patient rated at higher than 60 mm on a 100-mm visual-analogue scale. Also,prior bariatric or complex foregut surgery, significant cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal, liver, gastrointestinal, psychiatric disorders, pregnancy, malignancy within last 5 years, anemia, coagulopathy requiring anti-coagulation therapy.…
Where this trial is running
- Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Verify everything on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record. Page updated July 2026.