NCT03779633

Preoperative Oestrogen in Postmenopausal Women With Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Preoperative Locally Applied Oestrogen in Postmenopausal Women With Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Changes in Subjective and Objective Outcome - a Prospective, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Multicenter Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medical University of Vienna · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Introduction With increasing age the incidence of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) rises and will increase substantially in the future according to forecasting studies. It is possible that oestrogens, alone or in combination with other forms of therapy, may assist in the management of POP by increasing collagen synthesis and thereby improving the strength of the weakened vaginal epithelium. Yet, studies investigating the effect of topical oestrogen and its impact on POP associated symptoms, both self-reported improvement and observations of objective improvement, are lacking. Objective To evaluate the subjective efficacy concerning prolapse associated complaints measured by the German pelvic floor questionnaire (domain POP: POP-score) after preoperative use of local oestrogen compared to preoperative placebo treatment in postmenopausal women with symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse. Further variables of interest are POP-score after 3 months, differences regarding the objective prolapse quantification system (POP-Q), surgical outcome and tissue operability assessed by the surgeon. Methods In this prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study the investigators aim to include 120 postmenopausal women with symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse and indicated operative procedure. An analysis of covariance will be computed with the depending variable POP-score after 6 weeks and the independent variables group (verum versus placebo) and Pop-Score at baseline.

Conditions

• Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Linoladiol Estradiol	Linoladiol Estradiol Initial dose (week 1): 1 application (2g Linoladiol = 0.2mg Estradiol) every day for the first week Maintenance dose 1 (week 2) : 1 application (2g Linoladiol = 0.2mg Estradiol) every 48 hours the following week. Maintenance dose 2 (week 3-6): 1 application (2g Linoladiol = 0.2mg Estradiol) twice per week the following 4 weeks. Route of administration: intravaginally by means of a calibrated applicator before retiring at night Duration: 6 weeks
OTHER	Placebo vaginal cream	Initial dose (week 1): 1 application every day for the first week Maintenance dose 1 (week 2) : 1 application every 48 hours the following week. Maintenance dose 2 (week 3-6): 1 application twice per week the following 4 weeks. Route of administration: intravaginally by means of a calibrated applicator before retiring at night Duration: 6 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-02-02
• Primary completion: 2020-08-27
• Completion: 2020-08-27
• First posted: 2018-12-19
• Last updated: 2020-11-17

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Austria