Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03343795
Oral Versus Parental Progesterone in the Management of Preterm Labor
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 80 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Assiut University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- Female
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
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%)
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DRUG | oral progesterone | daily |
| DRUG | intramuscular progesterone | every week |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2017-07-05
- Primary completion
- 2018-05-13
- Completion
- 2018-05-30
- First posted
- 2017-11-17
- Last updated
- 2018-06-27
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Egypt
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03343795. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.