Uterine Perforation Clinical Trial
— EURAS-IUDOfficial title:
European Active Surveillance Study for Intrauterine Devices
The primary objective of the study is to assess the risks of intrauterine device (IUD) use in a study population that is representative for the actual users of the individual IUDs. The primary clinical outcome of interest is the uterine perforation rate.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 63194 |
Est. completion date | December 2013 |
Est. primary completion date | May 2012 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | Female |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - women who have a new insertion of an IUD - women who are willing to participate in this cohort study Exclusion Criteria: - women who are not cooperative - women with a language barrier |
Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective
Country | Name | City | State |
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Germany | Center for Epidemiology and Health Research | Berlin |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Center for Epidemiology and Health Research, Germany | Bayer |
Germany,
Heinemann K, Reed S, Moehner S, Minh TD. Comparative contraceptive effectiveness of levonorgestrel-releasing and copper intrauterine devices: the European Active Surveillance Study for Intrauterine Devices. Contraception. 2015 Apr;91(4):280-3. doi: 10.101 — View Citation
Heinemann K, Reed S, Moehner S, Minh TD. Risk of uterine perforation with levonorgestrel-releasing and copper intrauterine devices in the European Active Surveillance Study on Intrauterine Devices. Contraception. 2015 Apr;91(4):274-9. doi: 10.1016/j.contr — View Citation
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Other | Contraceptive Failure | Intrauterine contraceptive methods have low Pearl Indices. Nevertheless, there is a lack of comparative data between LNG IUS users and copper IUD users. Women with unintended pregnancies were explicitly aked whether the pregnancy occured despite IUD use. The 29 pregnancies that occured after unrecognized IUD expulsion were considered to have resulted from a failure of the contraceptive method and were therefore included in the analysis. | Within 12 months | No |
Primary | Uterine Perforation Rate | Uterine perforation is a potentially serious complication of intrauterine device (IUD) use. The absolute risk of uterine perforation associated with the LNG IUS in routine medical practice has not hitherto been well defined. It is also unknown whether the perforation rate is higher with this IUD than with copper IUDs. | 12 months after insertion | Yes |