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The Medacta International SMS Post-Marketing Surveillance Study

The Medacta SMS Femoral Stem Component. A Multi-National, Multi-Centre, Clinical Surveillance Study

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 Oct 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This is a Post-Marketing Surveillance of SMS femoral stem prosthesis.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
550 (estimated)
First submitted
11 Apr 2016
Start date
Jul 2015
Primary completion date
Jul 2032
Lead sponsor
Medacta International SA
NCT number
NCT02748408

What you commit to

  • Study type: Observational
  • Planned participants: 550
  • From Jul 2015 to the primary completion date, Jul 2032
  • 4 sites in 4 countries
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.

Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Osteomalacia where uncemented implant fixation is contraindicated

Other illness

  • Active infection
  • Mental illness where the known condition is likely to compromise the patient's ability to consent, affect the patient's assessment of their progress or complete the 10 year cycle of follow-up appointments and reviews
  • Metabolic disorders which may impair bone formation where uncemented implant fixation is contraindicated
  • Muscular atrophy or neuromuscular disease
  • Allergy to implant material

Other

  • Pregnancy
  • Grossly distorted anatomy (surgeon's discretion)
  • Active rheumatoid arthritis.
  • Osteoporosis
  • Any patient who cannot or will not provide informed consent for participation in the study
  • Those whose prospects for a recovery to independent mobility would be compromised by known coexistent, medical problems

Who the study is looking for

  • Individuals with a severely painful and/or disabling hip joint with osteoarthritis, traumatic arthritis or developmental dysplasia of the hip or avascular necrosis of the femoral head.
  • In order to take part in this study, all study participants must be between the ages of 18 and 75 years of age, at the time of surgery.
  • Scheduled for a primary total hip replacement.

Age in the registry: 18 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (4)

Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.

SiteCityCountrySite status
Herz-Jesu Krankenhaus
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ViennaAustriaRecruiting
Bürgerspital Solothurn
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SolothurnSwitzerlandRecruiting
The Elective Orthopaedic Centre (EOC)
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EpsomUnited KingdomRecruiting
Istituto Ortopedico Galezzi
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MilanItalyRecruiting

This page is information, not medical advice. Discuss any trial with your doctor.