1. objective \- safety and efficacy evalaution of MASTER cells injected into knee of patients with osteoarthritis 2. background * osteoarthritis * Osteoarthritis is severe and intractable musculoskeletal disease that eventually leads to joint failure and pain due to inflammation and joint injury. * OA is one of the most prevalent diseases. The prevalence increases with age, but overuse and trauma can result in OA in young population as well. * Injured cartilage can not be regenerated spontaneously, untreated injured cartilage eventually leads to osteoarthritis. Surgical treatment may repair the damage but the reparied cartilage may turn out to be fibrocartilage rather than hyaline cartilage. * Curent treatment * medical therapy: medication for symptom relief, together with exercise. Medications include NSAIDS visco-supplement. * surgical therapy: total knee replacement arthroplasty * to overcome such limitations, cell therapy such as stem cell/ chondrocyte injection is being investigated 3. Hypothesis \- Intra articular injection of MASTER cells will show safety and efficacy in terms of pain and functional improvement. 4. Protocol 1) deisgn : Injection of MASTER cell 1X 10\^8 cells/2cc (experimental arm) or 2cc saline (placebo arm) into knee of patients with osteoarthritis 2) outcomes * primary outcome : safety evaluation(adverse event) * secondary outcomes : check on 1,2,3,6,9,12 months, atient reported outcome (WOMAC, KOOS, IKDC, pain VAS) 3,12 months SF-36, knee MRI score, serum cytokine, bone turnover marker 12 months x-ray 3) Disease * osteoarthritis 4\) Subjects 1. inclusion : age 20-80yrs, diagnosed with OA according to ACR criteria for knee OA, baseline pain VAS equal or more than 50mm 2. exclusion: lower extremities surgery within 6months or planned surgery, concommitant systemic rheumatic diseases that can affect the results of the trial, steroid intraarticular inejction into the index knee within 3months, clinicallly meaningful abnormal lab tests (liver function, kidney function) 5\) evaluation * primary outome : compare the number and proportion of of adverse event and lab test abnormalities between the two arms * secondary outome 1. change of 100mm pain VAS 2. change of Western Ontario and McMAster Universities Osteoarthritis (WOMAC) pain VAS, IKDC, KOOS total score 3. change WOMAC sub scale, IKDC, KOOS 4. chagne of KHAQ 5. change of MRI indices 6. change of x-ray( joins space narrowing) 7. change of serum ESR/CRP, CTX-II
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
24
Injection of CATHOLIC MASTER cells 1 x 10\^8 cells/DMEM 5cc into knee of patents with osteoarthritis
Injection of saline 5cc into knee of patents with osteoarthritis
Catholic University of Korea
Seoul, South Korea
RECRUITINGadverse event according to CTCAE 5.0, clinically meaningful abnormalites in laboratory tests (blood)
Time frame: Change from Baseline blood abnormalities at 12 month
Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) score
Time frame: Change from Baseline WOMAC score at 12 month
Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS)
Time frame: Change from Baseline KOOS score at 12 month
International knee documentation committee (IKDC)
Time frame: Change from Baseline IKDC score at 12 month
Cartilage damage evaluation through knee MRI
Time frame: Change from Baseline cartilage morphology at 12 month
SF-36 questionnaire
Time frame: Change from Baseline SF-36 score at 12 month
Serum inflammatory cytokine, acute phase reactant, bone turnover marker
Time frame: Change from Baseline cytokine level, acute phase reactant, bone turnover marker level at 12 month
Cartilage damage evaluation through knee x-ray
Time frame: Change from Baseline cartilage and bone morphology at 12 month
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