Oral Nutritional Optimization in Total Joint Arthroplasty

Description

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect on hematological markers of nutritional intervention on nutritionally deficient patients following total joint replacement surgery.

Conditions

Osteoarthritis

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Study overview

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect on hematological markers of nutritional intervention on nutritionally deficient patients following total joint replacement surgery.

Oral Nutritional Optimization in Total Joint Arthroplasty

Oral Nutritional Optimization in Total Joint Arthroplasty

Condition
Osteoarthritis
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

New York

NYU Langone Health, New York, New York, United States, 10016

Philadelphia

Rothman Orthopedic Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. Patient are current candidates for elective primary total hip and total knee arthroplasty
  • 2. Patients ≥55 years of age but ≤ 95
  • 3. Patients who meet at least one of the following three laboratory criteria for malnutrition:
  • 1. Previous history of septic arthritis
  • 2. Allergy to oral supplementation
  • 3. Inability to consume oral supplementation
  • 4. Protein malabsorption syndromes
  • 5. Eating disorders
  • 6. End stage renal and hepatic disease
  • 7. Revision surgery, non-elective surgery, hemiarthroplasty, and unicompartmental knee arthroplasty

Ages Eligible for Study

55 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

NYU Langone Health,

Ran Schwarzkopf, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, NYU Langone

Study Record Dates

2025-12-31