ProgesteroneNCT05276531
Comparison of the Effect of Subcutaneous Progesterone and Vaginal Progesterone for Luteal Phase Support
A study testing subcutaneous progesterone and vaginal progesterone in people with Progesterone, run by Bezmialem Vakif University at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
Trial summary
The invesigators aimed to seperate the patients,which is going to be applied IUI, to two different groups as prospective randomized controlled ;assess the efficacy of the two different way pressurised progesterone by appling intravaginal progesterone to the first group; subcutaneous to the second group. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 40 years, women onlyHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Progesterone
- What is being tested?
- subcutaneous progesterone and vaginal progesterone
- Type of treatment
- Pill or oral medicine, Injection or infusion
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 146 participants
- Where
- 1 siteTurkey (Türkiye)
- Study dates
- 1 Apr 2022to 1 Sep 2022
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 40 years
- Women only
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult
Who may be able to join
- Absence of follicles larger than 10 mm on basal ultrasound
- Endometrial thickness less than 5 mm
- Patients with FSH<10 IU/ml, E2<60-80 pg/ml in the blood hormone test performed on the third day of the cycle and patients with antral follicle count above 7 on ultrasound
- Total motile sperm count greater than 10 million/ml
- 18-40 years old female, 18-50 years old male
- Anovulation, patients diagnosed with unexplained mild male factor infertility
- Female partners, who's BMI<25 kg/m²
- Being voluntarily
Who cannot join
- Other infertility reasons
- The patients who doesn't meet the criterias
- Refusing to attend to the research
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: Comparison of the Effect of Subcutaneous Progesterone and Vaginal Progesterone for Luteal Phase Support in Intrauterine Insemination
The invesigators aimed to seperate the patients,which is going to be applied IUI, to two different groups as prospective randomized controlled ;assess the efficacy of the two different way pressurised progesterone by appling intravaginal progesterone to the first group; subcutaneous to the second group.
Read the detailed description
Approxymately %10-15 of the couples who are in reproductive age ,have infertility issues. %30-40 male factor ,%40-50 female factor and %20-25 both factors play a role in infertility etiology. Contributory factors of cases are %30-40 male factors, %40-50 female factors and %20-25 mixed type. Ovulation induction and intrauterine insemination(IUI) are the main treatments in infertility.IUI is accepted as the most used treatment procedure according to other assisted reproductive techniques because it has lower costs ,can be easy applied and less invasive.Luteal phase ,which is approximately 14 days,is identified as between the time of ovulation and the beginning of the menstruation period. The production of progesterone in this period,is related to the function of corpus luteum. Progesterone is used as luteal support in patients which are applied ovulation induction with gonadotropin(GND). Gonadotropin is going to be used for controlled ovarian stimulation. The treatment is going to be started on second or third day of the cycle and GND dose is going to be determined according to the patient's age, body mass index, ovary reserve and past stimulation dose answer. Treatment processed gonadotropin dose is going to be arranged according to the follicle's progress and endometrial thickness. Human chorionic gonadotropin(hCG) is going to be added to the treatment when dominant follicle's diameter reached to 17-18mm for occuring of the ovulation. Sperm obtained by density gradient method using fresh sperm 36 hours after hCG, is going to be applied to the female partner with the help of a soft catheter in the dorsalitotomy position under ultrasound guidance. The patient is going to be kept in the supine position after the procedure for 15 minutes. Each patient is going to be given a single insemination and told to resume sexual intercourse for 3 days after the procedure. Intravaginal progesterone once a day to the first group after insemination to the patients divided into two different groups with randomized controlled (LUTINUS® 100 mg vaginal tablet, Ferring GmbH Wittland/Kiel/Germany) , second group subcutaneous progesterone (PROLUTEX® 25 mg Solution for injection, IBSA Group, Lugano, Switzerland) is going to be used once a day. Clinical pregnancy rates are going to be recorded by performing a blood pregnancy test on the 15th day after the procedure. The investigators aimed to separate the patients, who are going to be applied IUI, in to two different groups as prospective randomized controlled; assess the efficacy of the two different way applied progesterone by appling intravaginal progesterone to the first group; subcutaneous to the second group.
- Conditions
- Progesterone
- Being tested
- subcutaneous progesterone, vaginal progesterone
- Keywords
- progesterone, iui
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
subcutaneous progesteroneDrug
clinical pregnancy rates
vaginal progesteroneDrug
clinical pregnancy rates
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| subcutaneous progesterone | Experimental | PROLUTEX® 25 mg Solution for injection, IBSA Group, Lugano, Switzerland Receives: Drug: subcutaneous progesterone |
| vaginal progesterone | Active comparator | LUTINUS® 100 mg vaginal tablets, Ferring GmbH Wittland/Kiel/Germany Receives: Drug: vaginal progesterone |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
clinical pregnancy rate
after iui betahcg levels blood sampling
Measured: day 15
Secondary outcomes (1)
Ongoing pregnancy rate
Ongoing pregnancy rates 3 months after iui
Measured: Months 3
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted11 Mar 2022
- Study start1 Apr 2022
- Primary completion1 Jun 2022
- Study completion1 Sep 2022
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (7)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for ProgesteroneStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Bezmialem Vakif UniversityThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 146 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Bezmialem Vakif University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Gurkan Kiran, MD, Study chair, Bezmialem Vakif University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05276531
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 18.10.2021-E.36477
- Status last verified
- Sep 2022
- First submitted
- 3 Mar 2022
- Last updated
- 9 Sep 2022
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
Erdem A, Erdem M, Atmaca S, Guler I. Impact of luteal phase support on pregnancy rates in intrauterine insemination cycles: a prospective randomized study. Fertil Steril. 2009 Jun;91(6):2508-13. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.04.029. Epub 2008 Aug 9.
PubMed 18692788Oktem M, Altinkaya SO, Yilmaz SA, Bozkurt N, Erdem M, Erdem A, Gumuslu S. Effect of luteal phase support after ovulation induction and intrauterine insemination. Gynecol Endocrinol. 2014;30(12):909-12. doi: 10.3109/09513590.2014.947567. Epub 2014 Aug 7.
PubMed 25102275Maher MA. Luteal phase support may improve pregnancy outcomes during intrauterine insemination cycles. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2011 Jul;157(1):57-62. doi: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2011.03.022. Epub 2011 Apr 21.
PubMed 21514032Ozcan P, Takmaz T. Identification of predictive factors for the probability of pregnancy following ovulation stimulation-intra-uterine insemination cycles in terms of female and male. J Obstet Gynaecol Res. 2021 Mar;47(3):893-899. doi: 10.1111/jog.14594. Epub 2021 Jan 5.
PubMed 33403758Keskin M, Aytac R. Does Luteal Phase Support Effect Pregnancy Rates in Intrauterine Insemination Cycles? A Prospective Randomised Controlled Study in a Tertiary Center. Obstet Gynecol Int. 2020 Aug 5;2020:6234070. doi: 10.1155/2020/6234070. eCollection 2020.
PubMed 32831851Khosravi D, Taheripanah R, Taheripanah A, Tarighat Monfared V, Hosseini-Zijoud SM. Comparison of oral dydrogesterone with vaginal progesteronefor luteal support in IUI cycles: a randomized clinical trial. Iran J Reprod Med. 2015 Jul;13(7):433-8.
PubMed 26494991Green KA, Zolton JR, Schermerhorn SM, Lewis TD, Healy MW, Terry N, DeCherney AH, Hill MJ. Progesterone luteal support after ovulation induction and intrauterine insemination: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis. Fertil Steril. 2017 Apr;107(4):924-933.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2017.01.011. Epub 2017 Feb 24.
PubMed 28238492
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 9 Sep 2022. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Comparison of the Effect of Subcutaneous Progesterone and Vaginal Progesterone for Luteal Phase Support in Intrauterine Insemination
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05276531
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 18.10.2021-E.36477
- Conditions
- Progesterone
- Keywords
- progesterone, iui
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 146 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Bezmialem Vakif UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 1 Apr 2022 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 1 Jun 2022 (actual)
- Study completion
- 1 Sep 2022 (actual)
- First posted
- 11 Mar 2022 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The invesigators aimed to seperate the patients,which is going to be applied IUI, to two different groups as prospective randomized controlled ;assess the efficacy of the two different way pressurised progesterone by appling intravaginal progesterone to the first group; subcutaneous to the second group.
Detailed description
Approxymately %10-15 of the couples who are in reproductive age ,have infertility issues. %30-40 male factor ,%40-50 female factor and %20-25 both factors play a role in infertility etiology. Contributory factors of cases are %30-40 male factors, %40-50 female factors and %20-25 mixed type. Ovulation induction and intrauterine insemination(IUI) are the main treatments in infertility.IUI is accepted as the most used treatment procedure according to other assisted reproductive techniques because it has lower costs ,can be easy applied and less invasive.Luteal phase ,which is approximately 14 days,is identified as between the time of ovulation and the beginning of the menstruation period. The production of progesterone in this period,is related to the function of corpus luteum. Progesterone is used as luteal support in patients which are applied ovulation induction with gonadotropin(GND). Gonadotropin is going to be used for controlled ovarian stimulation. The treatment is going to be started on second or third day of the cycle and GND dose is going to be determined according to the patient's age, body mass index, ovary reserve and past stimulation dose answer. Treatment processed gonadotropin dose is going to be arranged according to the follicle's progress and endometrial thickness. Human chorionic gonadotropin(hCG) is going to be added to the treatment when dominant follicle's diameter reached to 17-18mm for occuring of the ovulation. Sperm obtained by density gradient method using fresh sperm 36 hours after hCG, is going to be applied to the female partner with the help of a soft catheter in the dorsalitotomy position under ultrasound guidance. The patient is going to be kept in the supine position after the procedure for 15 minutes. Each patient is going to be given a single insemination and told to resume sexual intercourse for 3 days after the procedure. Intravaginal progesterone once a day to the first group after insemination to the patients divided into two different groups with randomized controlled (LUTINUS® 100 mg vaginal tablet, Ferring GmbH Wittland/Kiel/Germany) , second group subcutaneous progesterone (PROLUTEX® 25 mg Solution for injection, IBSA Group, Lugano, Switzerland) is going to be used once a day. Clinical pregnancy rates are going to be recorded by performing a blood pregnancy test on the 15th day after the procedure. The investigators aimed to separate the patients, who are going to be applied IUI, in to two different groups as prospective randomized controlled; assess the efficacy of the two different way applied progesterone by appling intravaginal progesterone to the first group; subcutaneous to the second group.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| subcutaneous progesterone | Experimental | Drug: subcutaneous progesteronePROLUTEX® 25 mg Solution for injection, IBSA Group, Lugano, Switzerland |
| vaginal progesterone | Active comparator | Drug: vaginal progesteroneLUTINUS® 100 mg vaginal tablets, Ferring GmbH Wittland/Kiel/Germany |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 40 years
- Sex
- Female only
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult
Key inclusion criteria (8 listed)
- Absence of follicles larger than 10 mm on basal ultrasound
- Endometrial thickness less than 5 mm
- Patients with FSH<10 IU/ml, E2<60-80 pg/ml in the blood hormone test performed on the third day of the cycle and patients with antral follicle count above 7 on ultrasound
- Total motile sperm count greater than 10 million/ml
- 18-40 years old female, 18-50 years old male
Key exclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Other infertility reasons
- The patients who doesn't meet the criterias
- Refusing to attend to the research
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| subcutaneous progesteroneclinical pregnancy rates | Drug | subcutaneous progesterone |
| vaginal progesteroneclinical pregnancy rates | Drug | vaginal progesterone |
Primary outcome
clinical pregnancy rate
Time frame: day 15
after iui betahcg levels blood sampling
1 secondary outcome
Ongoing pregnancy rate
Time frame: Months 3
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 9 Sep 2022.
- Background: PubMed 18692788Erdem A, Erdem M, Atmaca S, Guler I. Impact of luteal phase support on pregnancy rates in intrauterine insemination cycles: a prospective randomized study. Fertil Steril. 2009 Jun;91(6):2508-13. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.04.029. Epub 2008 Aug 9.
- Background: PubMed 25102275Oktem M, Altinkaya SO, Yilmaz SA, Bozkurt N, Erdem M, Erdem A, Gumuslu S. Effect of luteal phase support after ovulation induction and intrauterine insemination. Gynecol Endocrinol. 2014;30(12):909-12. doi: 10.3109/09513590.2014.947567. Epub 2014 Aug 7.
- Background: PubMed 21514032Maher MA. Luteal phase support may improve pregnancy outcomes during intrauterine insemination cycles. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2011 Jul;157(1):57-62. doi: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2011.03.022. Epub 2011 Apr 21.
- Background: PubMed 33403758Ozcan P, Takmaz T. Identification of predictive factors for the probability of pregnancy following ovulation stimulation-intra-uterine insemination cycles in terms of female and male. J Obstet Gynaecol Res. 2021 Mar;47(3):893-899. doi: 10.1111/jog.14594. Epub 2021 Jan 5.
- Background: PubMed 32831851Keskin M, Aytac R. Does Luteal Phase Support Effect Pregnancy Rates in Intrauterine Insemination Cycles? A Prospective Randomised Controlled Study in a Tertiary Center. Obstet Gynecol Int. 2020 Aug 5;2020:6234070. doi: 10.1155/2020/6234070. eCollection 2020.
- Background: PubMed 26494991Khosravi D, Taheripanah R, Taheripanah A, Tarighat Monfared V, Hosseini-Zijoud SM. Comparison of oral dydrogesterone with vaginal progesteronefor luteal support in IUI cycles: a randomized clinical trial. Iran J Reprod Med. 2015 Jul;13(7):433-8.
- Background: PubMed 28238492Green KA, Zolton JR, Schermerhorn SM, Lewis TD, Healy MW, Terry N, DeCherney AH, Hill MJ. Progesterone luteal support after ovulation induction and intrauterine insemination: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis. Fertil Steril. 2017 Apr;107(4):924-933.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2017.01.011. Epub 2017 Feb 24.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Gurkan Kiran, MD study chair
Bezmialem Vakif University
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing subcutaneous progesterone and vaginal progesterone in people with Progesterone, run by Bezmialem Vakif University at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 8 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 9 Sep 2022. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye). Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
clinical pregnancy rate (time frame: day 15). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT05276531, which also lists 7 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 9 Sep 2022.