# Study Comparing Peri-articular Injection of Bupivacaine With and Without Epinephrine

> **NCT00737139** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Rush University Medical Center** · enrollment: 33 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Osteoarthritis

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Peri-articular injection of marcaine/epinephrine
- **PROCEDURE:** Peri-articular injection of marcaine alone

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00737139
- **Lead sponsor:** Rush University Medical Center
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2008-09
- **Primary completion:** 2012-04
- **Final completion:** 2012-04
- **Target enrollment:** 33 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Prohibitively expensive and efficacy of tranexamic acid rendered topic clinically less relevant.
- **Last updated:** 2012-08-31


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00737139

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00737139, "Study Comparing Peri-articular Injection of Bupivacaine With and Without Epinephrine". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00737139. Licensed CC0.

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