The Effect of the Levonorgestrel-Releasing Intrauterine System and the Copper-Intrauterine Device (TCu 380A) on Subendometrial Microvascularization and Uterine Artery Blood Flow.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 63
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Ultra-sound doppler, IP and IR indexes
研究概览
简要总结
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the LNG-IUS and TCU 380A users on the sub-endometrial vascularization and the uterine artery blood flow using power Doppler analysis and ultrasonography pulsed color Doppler during the precise mid-luteal phase.
详细描述
Design We will perform a prospective (quasi-experimental) clinical trial. Patients/Methodology We prospectively will enrolled consecutive patients who wants to use IUD (LNG-IUS or TCU 380A). We will evaluate the sub-endometrial blood flow using power Doppler analysis, uterine artery blood flow using pulsatility and resistance index and endometrial thickness before IUD insertion and three months later.
The inclusion criteria are: 1. regularly menstruating women (menstrual cycle varying between 24-35 days); 2. Normal serum TSH, FSH and prolactin levels (as measured on day-3) and with less than 40 years. Contraceptive pills or any kind of hormonal medication had not been taken for (at least) 3 months prior to the study and any intrauterine device had necessarily been removed at least 3 months earlier. Patients will be allowed to not use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) within 24 h prior to any examination.
The exclusion criteria are pregnancy, acute or chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, menorrhagia for unknown reason, copper allergy, cervicitis, dysplasia in the cervix or genital tumor. All patients underwent a gynecological examination and had a Papanicolaou smear taken during the previous 12 months.
All patients will be daily examined with US after the eighth day of the cycle, and follicular development will be observed to confirm ovulation; they are then examined in the mid-luteal phase, 6-9 days after ovulation, to obtain the power Doppler energy (PDE) measurement, pulsatility index (PI), resistance index (RI) and endometrial thickness (ET) by ultrasound (US) scans. The study was approved by the Ethical Committee of Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, IRB equivalent (# 02-127) and informed consent was obtained from all patients.
Patients will be allocated into 2 groups according to the IUD: LNG-IUS (group A) or TCu 380A (group B).
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Diagnostic
- 盲法
- Single
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 40 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Regularly menstruating women (menstrual cycle varying between 24-35 days);
- •Normal serum TSH, FSH and prolactin levels (as measured on day-3) and with less than 40 years. Contraceptive pills or any kind of hormonal medication had not been taken for (at least) 3 months prior to the study and any intrauterine device had necessarily been removed at least 3 months earlier. Patients were allowed to not use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) within 24 h prior to any examination.
排除标准
- •Pregnancy, acute or chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, menorrhagia for unknown reason, copper allergy, cervicitis, dysplasia in the cervix or genital tumor. All patients underwent a gynecological examination and had a Papanicolaou smear taken during the previous 12 months.
结局指标
主要结局
Ultra-sound doppler, IP and IR indexes
时间窗: 3 mo
次要结局
- pelvic pain, uterine bleediing(3 mo)