Clinical Trial: Prevalence of Amyloidosis and Carpal Tunnel

Study Status: Not yet recruiting
Recruit Status: Not yet recruiting
Study Type: Observational

Official Title: Prevalence of Amyloidosis in Carpal Tunnel Surgery

Brief Summary: This is a cross sectional study to estimate the prevalence of the presence of amyloid deposits in a biopsy of subcutaneous fat cell, carpal flexor retinaculum and synovial tissue sheath of the flexor tendons requirement for carpal tunnel surgery.

Detailed Summary:

Amyloidosis (A) is a disease caused by the deposit of usually misfolded protein in form of amorphous fibrillar material in different tissues, which may cause their progressive dysfunction. The prevalence of amyloidosis varies by population studied and the type of amyloid. Although the prevalence in the general population is unknown, the Mayo Clinic in U.S. estimated a 1/90666. This disease generated about 0.0084 % (1367/16232579) of total hospital visits between April 2008 and April 2009 in England.

The most frequent clinical manifestations are cardiac, renal and hepatic involvement, but vary widely depending on the type of amyloidosis , organ affected and the extent of the deposits. Infiltration of amyloid may produce signs and symptoms that could be very similar to other diseases, like the rheumatologic one. This potentially polymorphous clinic presentation may suggest under-diagnosis by low clinical suspicion.

Carpal tunnel syndrome is frequent in patients with A and may be the initial manifestation. This syndrome is generated by the progressive infiltration of amyloid fibrils in the retinaculum flexor and in synovial tissue, causing compression of the medium nerve. A frequency of up to 13% of carpal tunnel syndrome has been reported in patients with primary amyloidosis.

In 1993, Breda et al. assessed 98 tendon and synovial tissue's biopsies of patients operated for carpal tunnel syndrome. The pathology revealed amyloid deposition in 12% of them, of which 8 had no evidence of systemic disease. This amyloid deposition was interpreted as probably secondary to chronic local inflammation. In 1992, Kyle et al. evaluated the incidence of systemic amyloidosis in a retrospective cohort of 35 patients with carpal tunnel syndrome and synovial local deposition of amyloidosis withou
Sponsor: Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Current Primary Outcome: presence of amyloid deposits [ Time Frame: one month ]

Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

Original Secondary Outcome:

Information By: Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Dates:
Date Received: April 1, 2014
Date Started: June 2016
Date Completion: December 2017
Last Updated: December 16, 2015
Last Verified: December 2015