Clinical trial NCT03202836: Vaginal Progesterone Supplementation in the Management of Preterm Labor
Official title: Vaginal Progesterone Supplementation in the Management of Preterm Labor: A Randomized, Double Blind, Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Preterm Labor
Lead sponsor: Chulalongkorn University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-06-29
Enrollment: 90
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 45
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study evaluates the addition of vaginal progesterone in the management of preterm labor. Half of participants will receive vaginal progesterone, tocolysis and corticosteroid, while the other half will receive only tocolysis and corticosteroid.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* singleton pregnant women with preterm labor, gestational age 24-34 weeks

Exclusion Criteria:

* have indicated preterm birth
* allergy to progesterone
* fetal anomalies
* cervical dilate \> 5 cm.
* have medical disease
* have obstetric complication

Primary outcomes:
measure: Time from preterm labor pain to delivery
timeFrame: 9 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: gestational age at delivery
timeFrame: 9 weeks
measure: number of pregnant women deliver before 34 weeks
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: number of pregnant women deliver before 37 weeks
timeFrame: 9 weeks
measure: Number of newborn with respiratory distress syndrome
timeFrame: 9 weeks
measure: Number of newborn with intraventricular hemorrhage
timeFrame: 9 weeks
measure: Number of newborn with necrotizing enterocolitis
timeFrame: 9 weeks
measure: Number of newborn with sepsis
timeFrame: 9 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bangkok
country: Thailand
facility: Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University
Study officials:
affiliation: Chulalongkorn University
name: Vorapong Phupong, MD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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