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Endometrial Biopsy in Infertile Patients

NCT00064935 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 880

Last updated 2005-06-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

When a woman becomes pregnant, the fertilized egg attaches itself to the lining of the uterus (endometrium). The endometrium is constantly changing throughout a woman's menstrual cycle in response to the female hormones estrogen and progesterone. The endometrium must have certain characteristics (be at a specific phase in its cycle) in order for the fertilized egg to successfully attach. Infertility may be caused by an "out of phase" endometrium (i.e., the endometrium doesn't have the right characteristics when the fertilized egg reaches it). The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the endometrial biopsy is useful in predicting the potential for becoming pregnant and bearing a child.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Endometrial biopsy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Evan Myers, MD, MPH · Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Max Age
39 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1999-04-30
Completion
2002-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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