One-and-done surgery for stubborn bone infections? new study puts bone filler to the test.
NCT ID NCT06555848
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether a special bone filler called CERAMENT G can help treat chronic bone infections (osteomyelitis) in a single operation. About 128 adults with severe bone infections will receive the filler after infected bone is removed. Researchers will track infection clearance, bone healing, and complications over 3 years.
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Study facts
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- Participants
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About 128 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2025
- Expected to finish
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Oct 2032
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Patients enrolled post-operatively with Osteomyelitis
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: Subjects meeting the following inclusion criteria are to be included in the analysis: 1. Patients receiving CERAMENT G subsequent to surgical excision of osteomyelitis, with Cierny-Mader classification grades III or IV, who require dead-space management of a bone defect following surgical debridement and excision of infection. 2. Symptoms for a minimum of six months with clinical and radiological features accompanied by at least one of the following: 1. the presence of a sinus 2. the presence of an abscess or intra-operative pus 3. the presence of positive supportive histology 4. two or more microbiological cultures with indistinguishable organisms (defined as cultures resulting in identification of the same microbe (e.g., Staph aureus) with similar antimicrobial sensitivity) Notes: In cases where cultures are negative, a patient will be included in the study only if there is positive supportive histology combined with the presence of a draining sinus or intra-operative pus. Infected non-unions will be included only if the bone loss is \< 1cm after debridement and excision of bone has been performed. Exclusion Criteria: The subject will be excluded from the study if: 1. Skeletal immaturity, defined as pre-operative/ screening radiology with evidence of incompletely fused physes. (determined by their previous x-rays which are taken as part of their admission, unrelated to the study) 2. Those unable to give informed consent for inclusion in the trial, or those not willing to be included 3. A known allergy or reaction to gentamicin or calcium sulfate 4. Treatment with a combination of different antibiotic-eluting bone graft substitutes 5. They have a segmental bone defect \> 1cm 6. Infection of the spine
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Bone Infection Unit, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centtre, Oxford University Hospitals, MHS
RECRUITINGOxford, OX37HE, United Kingdom
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