NCT03343795
Completed
Phase 4
Oral Versus Parental Progesterone in the Management of Preterm Labor
ConditionsPreterm Labor
Overview
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Intervention
- oral progesterone
- Conditions
- Preterm Labor
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
- Enrollment
- 80
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- the rate of preterm labor
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 7 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Preterm birth, defined as delivery at less than 37 weeks gestation, complicates approximately 12% of pregnancies in the United States
Preterm delivery has been, and remains, the most important challenge to modern obstetrics. In 2009, 13 million babies were born preterm, 11 million in Africa and Asia and 500,000 in the USA, The highest rates of preterm birth are in Africa (11.9%) and North America (10.6%)
Investigators
Ahmed Mohamed Abbas
Principal investigator
Assiut University
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Past history of one or more spontaneous preterm labor.
- •Singleton pregnancy.
- •Pregnancy of less than 20 weeks of gestation
Exclusion Criteria
- •Women on tocolytic drugs .
- •Underwent cervical cerclage in this pregnancy .
- •Multiple gestations .
- •Major fetal congenital malformations .
- •Pregnancy 0f more than 20 weeks gestation .
Arms & Interventions
study group 1
oral progesterone
Intervention: oral progesterone
study group 2
intramuscular progesterone
Intervention: intramuscular progesterone
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
the rate of preterm labor
Time Frame: 10 weeks
number of women delivered before 37 weeks
Study Sites (1)
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