Ultrasound Based Study For Niche Development In The Uterine Cesarean Section Scar
NCT ID: NCT03859258
Last Updated: 2021-10-18
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
221 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2017-07-01
2019-07-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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The expanding rate of cesarean deliveries can be credited to many variables including an increase in repeated cesarean sections. There is no discourse that CS is a lifesaving method for a few women, for instance for women with placenta previa or obstructed labor, or for fetuses with either antenatal or intrapartum distress, breech pregnancy or a twin pregnancy. The World Health Organization suggests that the ideal CS rate should be 15%.
Also, this expanding CS rate has fortified an enthusiasm for the potential long-term morbidity of CS scars. By and large, the cesarean incision heals uneventfully. However, some authors depicted a cesarean scar defect on transvaginal sonography (TVS) or saline infusion sonography (SIS) as a wedge shape anechoic structure at the site of the scar or a gap in anterior myometrium of the anterior lower myometrium at the site of previous cesarean section site. This was first described using hysterosalpingography in 1961. The terminology used to describe these scar abnormalities include scar defects, or 'niches' in the uterine scar, cesarean scar defect, uterine diverticulum, uterine isthmocele, pouch or sacculation and differs various publications. The term 'niche', which was introduced in 2001. A niche appears to be frequently present after a CS. Using SIS, niches were identified in the scar in more than half of the women who had had a caesarean delivery. Niches were defined as indentations of the myometrium of at least 2 mm. Large niches occur less frequently, with an incidence varying from 11 to 45% dependent on the definition used (a depth of at least 50 or 80% of the anterior myometrium, or the remaining myometrial thickness ≤2.2 mm when evaluated by TVS and ≤2.5 mm when evaluated by sonohysterography).
It is usually asymptomatic. Be that as it may, some authors have described some symptoms identified with this condition and there are several studies relating abnormal uterine bleeding and niche, especially postmenstrual spotting which appears to be the most common symptom in women with niches due to the collection of menstrual blood in a uterine scar defect causing postmenstrual spotting.
Later prospective cohort studies reported spotting in ∼30% of women with a niche at 6- 12 months after their CS compared with 15% of women without a niche after CS. It is undoubtedly a generally new pathology that needs assessment.
Conditions
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Study Design
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COHORT
PROSPECTIVE
Study Groups
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Patient having Cesarean section
Transvaginal sonography for patients having ceserean section to assess uterine Niche development and parameters
Transvaginal sonography
Niche is assessed using TVS, SIS (cases only) and office hysteroscopy
Patient delivered vaginally
Transvaginal sonography for patients having vaginal delivery to confirm absence of uterine Niche development
Transvaginal sonography
Niche is assessed using TVS, SIS (cases only) and office hysteroscopy
Interventions
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Transvaginal sonography
Niche is assessed using TVS, SIS (cases only) and office hysteroscopy
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
2. Controls are delivered vaginally
3. Singleton fetus
4. Living fetus
5. Term pregnancy
Exclusion Criteria
2. Congenital fetal anomalies
3. Severe oligohydramnios(MVP \<2cm)
4. Rupture of membranes more than 18 hours
5. Puerperal pyrexia or sepsis
6. Bladder injury
7. Blood transfusion
20 Years
40 Years
FEMALE
No
Sponsors
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Cairo University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Mohammed Raafat Abdelfatah Mohamed Said
Assistant lecturer of obstetrics and gynecology
Principal Investigators
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Mona M Aboulghar, M.D.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Cairo University
Hassan M Gaafar, M.D.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Cairo University
Hisham M Haggag, M.D.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Cairo University
Locations
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Cairo University
Cairo, , Egypt
Countries
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References
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Bij de Vaate AJ, Brolmann HA, van der Voet LF, van der Slikke JW, Veersema S, Huirne JA. Ultrasound evaluation of the Cesarean scar: relation between a niche and postmenstrual spotting. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Jan;37(1):93-9. doi: 10.1002/uog.8864.
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Other Identifiers
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CSD1
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id