Episealer® Knee System IDE Clinical Study
Public ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04000659. Field values are reproduced from the official study page; the official ClinicalTrials.gov record remains the source of truth for eligibility, enrollment, and contact information.
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Official title
A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, Multi-Center Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Episealer® Knee System Compared to Microfracture for the Treatment of Focal Femoral Knee Chondral or Osteochondral Lesions
Brief summary
Reproduced verbatim from the official ClinicalTrials.gov record. Not medical advice.
The study is a randomized, prospective, multicenter, controlled clinical trial of the Episealer Knee System. The Episealer Knee System is intended for subjects with up to two focal femoral knee chondral or osteochondral lesion that is causing pain and/or disability and requires surgical treatment.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04000659
- Recruitment status
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 13 participants
Conditions and interventions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 30 Years to 70 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jun 18, 2020 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Jun 2028 (Estimated)
- Completion
- Jun 2029 (Estimated)
- Last update posted
- Oct 14, 2026
2020 – 2029
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 8
- U.S. states
- 8
- U.S. cities
- 8
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physicians Research Group | Tempe | Arizona | 85284 | — |
| Horizon Clinical Research | La Mesa | California | 91942 | — |
| Ochsner Sports Medicine Institute | New Orleans | Louisiana | 70121 | — |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | New Jersey | 07601 | — |
| Plancher Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine | New York | New York | 10128 | — |
| Ohio State University | Columbus | Ohio | 43202 | — |
| Helios Clinical Research | Jackson | Tennessee | 38305 | — |
| North Texas Medical Research Institute | Dallas | Texas | 75254 | — |
Site contact phone numbers, emails, and investigator names are intentionally not displayed here. Open the official ClinicalTrials.gov record for site contact information.
Non-U.S. locations
This page focuses on the U.S. directory. The official record also lists 5 non-U.S. sites.
About this trial record page
- What this page shows
- Public field values for ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04000659, including study identification, conditions, interventions, eligibility (age, sex, healthy volunteer), timeline, and U.S. site list.
- What this page does not do
- No medical advice, eligibility judgments, treatment recommendations, study quality scoring, or AI-generated medical summaries. No site contact phone numbers, emails, or investigator names.
- Where the data comes from
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Oct 14, 2026 · Synced Oct 21, 2026
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