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NCT Number: NCT02220621

Efficacy and Safety of Crosslinked Hyaluronan Gel for Preventing Intrauterine Adhesion

Intrauterine adhesion (IUA) is the adhesion of intrauterine tissues due to the exposure of myometrial tissues caused by the endometrial basal injury. IUA is clinically manifested as symptoms such as abdominal pain, hypomenorrhea or amenorrhea, sterility and habitual abortion, which seriously affect the patients quality of life.

Preventing IUA has been tried using different methods such as barrier or stent in order to separate the opposing endometrium during the tissue healing processes. Although some successes have been reported there are still some challenges need to be dealt with.

One of the barrier materials for preventing IUA is made of hyaluronic acid (HA). HA is a natural ECM of human tissue with excellent biocompatibility and promotes the scar-free wound repair. The self-crosslinked esterified HA gel has demonstrated the capacity to prevent IUA in clinical studies.

A novel self-crosslinked HA gel is developed by BioRegen Biomedical(Changzhou)Co., Ltd with proprietary technologies. This product is a highly viscoelastic crosslinked gel that overcomes the shortcoming of sodium hyaluronate with high motility and too quick degradation in vivo. For this product, the results of animal experiments and various safety features have been designed and tested conforming to the national regulations and standards. In order to launch this product to the market, this prospective, randomized and controlled clinical trial is designed and will be performed to verify its safety/efficacy.

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Key information

Age range

20 year–40 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Female patients who are 20-40 years old who is diagnosed as intrauterine adhesion, and did not receive adhesiolysis surgery.
  • Patients who signed the informed consent form (ICF) and agreed to take contraceptive measures within 3 months after the surgery.
  • Physical examination and routine laboratory tests demonstrated no systemic diseases.
  • According to the AFS scoring system on the IUA (1988) only those patients with moderate to severe IUA (i.e. total AFS score larger than 4 points) were enrolled in this clinical trial.

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients who is allergic to hyaluronan or its derivatives.
  • Patients with inflammation of reproductive organs, pelvic cavity inflammation, malignant tumor of reproductive organs and other systemic diseases that could cause metrorrhagia.
  • Patients with malformation of reproductive organs.
  • Patients who may not take effective contraceptive measures within 3 months after the surgery. Patients who were suffering severe systemic diseases such as coagulative disorders, cardiovascular diseases and long-term alcoholism and drug abuse were also excluded from this clinical trial.

Treatment and study plan

Crosslinked hyaluronic acid gel

Device

After hysteroscopic adhesiolysis, MateRegen Gel IU is applied into the uterine cavity together with a Foley balloon catheter.

Other names: MateRegen Gel IU.

Foleys balloon catheter

Device

After adhesivolysis, the Foleys balloon catheter is inserted into the uterine cavityand expanded with normal saline.

Primary outcomes

  1. the percentage of patients free from IUA

    Time frame: 3 months after surgery

    Second look hysteroscopic examinations were performed at 3 months postoperatively. The adhesion was scored at adhesiolysis surgery and at follow-up hysteroscopy according to American Fertility Society scoring system.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Effective rate

    Time frame: three months after surgery

  2. Total AFS score

    Time frame: 3 months

  3. The score for each subcategory of AFS scoring system

    Time frame: 3 months

  4. The safety

    Time frame: 3 months

    Evaluated based on the number of patients shown complications and incidence rate for severe adverse events

Other outcomes

  1. Safety

    Time frame: 3 months

    Severe adverse event (SAE): cause prolonged hospitalization and disability to the patient.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Xiaozheng Shu

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

A Prospective, Multi-center, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Study on Self-crosslinked Sodium Hyaluronate Gel for Prevention of Intrauterine Adhesion

Important dates

Study start
2011
Primary completion
2012
First posted
Aug 20, 2014
Registry last updated
Aug 20, 2014

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