HYALOBARRIER® GEL ENDO Versus no HYALOBARRIER® GEL ENDO Following Operative Hysteroscopy for Improving Reproductive Outcome in Women With Intrauterine Pathology Wishing to Become Pregnant

NCT ID: NCT03880435

Last Updated: 2024-07-30

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

419 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-04-01

Study Completion Date

2025-05-31

Brief Summary

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To compare the costs and effects of HYALOBARRIER® GEL ENDO versus no HYALOBARRIER® GEL ENDO for increasing the chance of conception leading to live birth measured at 30 weeks after randomization in women wishing to become pregnant after surgical removal of intrauterine pathology (endometrial polyps, fibroids with uterine cavity deformation, uterine septa, IUAs or RPOC after miscarriage) by hysteroscopy as an outpatient or in hospital treatment.

Detailed Description

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Design:

Multi-centre, parallel group, superiority, double-blind, randomized controlled trial. Post market study of a Medical Device class III.

Participant:

Women aged 18 to 47 years attending Belgian gynaecological departments, scheduled for operative hysteroscopy for endometrial polyps, fibroids with uterine cavity deformation, uterine septa, intrauterine adhesions (IUAs) or retained products of conception, and wishing to conceive spontaneously or before fertility treatment with ovulation induction (OI), controlled ovarian stimulation (COS), intrauterine insemination (IUI) or IVF/ICSI.

Treatment:

Application of Hyalobarrier® gel endo at time of surgery

Control:

No application of Hyalobarrier® gel endo

Follow up:

short term follow-up: 30 weeks after receiving the treatment allocation long term follow-up: 66 weeks after receiving the treatment allocation

To blind all trial participants, fertility physicians and gynaecologists doing second- or third-look hysteroscopy, 10 ml of a sterile ultrasound gel will be applied into the vagina at the end of the procedure in all women regardless of their treatment allocation.

Conditions

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Infertility Polyp Uterus Myoma;Uterus Adhesion Hysteroscopy Uterine Septum Retained Products of Conception

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

TRIPLE

Participants Caregivers Investigators
None of the participants will be informed of the allocated treatment by the surgeon performing the operative hysteroscopy or the personnel present in the OR. The medical record will not reveal any information whether HYALOBARRIER® GEL ENDO was applied at the end of the procedure. The REDCap software will automatically document the allocation and store all the records and the randomisations. The gynaecologist doing the operative hysteroscopy should not be the same as the fertility physician and the gynaecologist doing the second look hysteroscopy. In the exceptional case that the surgeon doing the operative hysteroscopy is the same person as the fertility physician or the gynaecologist doing the second-look hysteroscopy, blinding is assured by notification of treatment allocation if the surgeon has left the operating room.

Study Groups

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Hyalobarrier® gel endo

Application of Hyalobarrier® gel endo immediate after the complete hysteroscopic removal of the polyp, myoma, adhesion, uterine septum or retained products of conception + application of sterile ultrasound gel into the vagina (to blind all trial participants, fertility physicians and gynaecologists doing second-look hysteroscopy)

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Hyalobarrier® gel endo

Intervention Type DEVICE

Intra-uterine application of 10ml sterile gel containing 30mg APC. It will be administered once, peroperatively immediate after the complete hysteroscopic removal of the polyp, myoma, adhesion, uterine septum or retained products of conception

No Hyalobarrier® gel endo

No application of Hyalobarrier® gel endo after the hysteroscopic removal of the polyp, myoma, adhesion, uterine septum or retained products of conception + application of sterile ultrasound gel into the vagina (to blind all trial participants, fertility physicians and gynaecologists doing second- or third-look hysteroscopy)

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Hyalobarrier® gel endo

Intra-uterine application of 10ml sterile gel containing 30mg APC. It will be administered once, peroperatively immediate after the complete hysteroscopic removal of the polyp, myoma, adhesion, uterine septum or retained products of conception

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Women aged 18 to 47 years attending Belgian fertility clinics, scheduled for operative hysteroscopy for endometrial polyps, fibroids with uterine cavity deformation, uterine septa, intrauterine adhesions (IUAs) and retained products of conception, and wishing to conceive spontaneously or before fertility treatment with ovulation induction (OI), controlled ovarian stimulation (COS), intrauterine insemination (IUI) or IVF/ICSI.

Exclusion Criteria

* Women younger than 18 years
* Women 48 years of age or older
* Women with a known allergy to HYALOBARRIER® GEL ENDO
* Women with an active infection of the genital tract proven by genital swabs for PCR (Chlamydia, gonococci) or endometrial biopsy (endometritis), not treated at the time of the pre- screening visit. Women adequately treated with proven cure (negative swabs or normal endometrial biopsy) can be included
* Subserosal fibroids (FIGO or PALM-COEIN classification type 6, 7) - leiomyomas that originate from the myometrium at the serosa of the uterus or intramural fibroids without uterine cavity deformation as documented by ultrasound, hysterography or hysteroscopy - as the sole uterine cavity abnormality identified in the screening phase.
* Women with fibroids, polyps, uterine septa or IUAs suffering from other symptoms, for instance abnormal uterine bleeding, but not wishing to conceive from 6 weeks following surgery
* Women with other Müllerian tract anomalies other than a uterine septum as the sole uterine cavity abnormality identified in the screening phase
* Women who participated in the trial but failed to conceive and who present with a recurrence of polyps, fibroids with cavity deformation, uterine septum or IUAs
* Women who refuse to give written informed consent.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

47 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Belgium Health Care Knowledge Centre

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Nordic Pharma SAS

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Health, Innovation and Research Institute (HIRUZ) UZ Ghent

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Liege

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

UCL Bruxelles

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Jessa hospital, Hasselt

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

University Hospital, Ghent

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Steven Weyers, MD,PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Women's Clinic

Locations

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University hospital Ghent

Ghent, East-Flanders, Belgium

Site Status

Countries

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Belgium

References

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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Other Identifiers

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AGNOHSTIC

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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