High-Tech GPS for your knee: new navigation system aims to improve joint replacement
NCT ID NCT05435690
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study is testing a new computer-assisted navigation system for total knee replacement surgery in 126 adults with knee arthritis. The system helps surgeons place the artificial joint more accurately. Researchers will measure how well patients can use their knee 3 and 12 months after surgery using standard knee scores.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Computer-assisted navigation system (device)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this navigation system could make knee replacement surgery more precise, leading to better function and faster recovery for patients.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study without a control group, so results may not prove the system is better than standard surgery. Device malfunctions or surgical complications are possible.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 126 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jan 2023
- Expected to finish
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May 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- 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: * Adult man or woman who has signed the informed consent for participation in the study, * Patient with primary uni or bilateral gonarthrosis * For whom an indication for total knee arthroplasty has been given Exclusion Criteria: * History of fracture, arthroplasty or osteotomy of the knee * Severe preoperative laxity warranting a constrained prosthesis * Inflammatory rheumatic disease or any other progressive concomitant condition that may impact on the patient's functional prognosis * Traumatic articular or extra-articular deformities of the lower limb * Neurological disease, after-effects of a stroke * Mental deficiency or any other reason that may hinder the understanding or the strict application of the protocol * Patient not affiliated to the French social security system * Patient under legal protection, guardianship or curatorship * Patient already included in another therapeutic study protocol or having participated in another trial in the previous three months
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Hôpital Privé Jean Mermoz
Lyon, 69008, France
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