Testosterone TRANSdermal Gel for Poor Ovarian Responders Trial

NCT02418572 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 290

Last updated 2024-05-22

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Summary

Previous work indicates that 2 months androgen pre-treatment may equip preantral follicles with more FSH receptors and increase the cohort of follicles surviving to the recruitable antral stage. In this regard it may result in an increase in the oocyte yield and the reproductive outcome in women with poor ovarian response. These findings provide a strong rationale for a definitive large RCT. The TTRANSPORT study will include 400 women with poor ovarian response randomized to receive pre-treatment with transdermal testosterone gel or placebo in order to provide conclusive evidence regarding the superiority or not of transdermal testosterone pre-treatment for the management of poor ovarian responders fulfilling the Bologna criteria.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Testosterone gel

Patients will receive once daily application of 0.55 gr testosterone gel-TTG (GROUP A) (Testosterone gel 1%; Laboratories Besins International, Paris, France) with a 5.5 mg/d nominal delivery rate of testosterone starting from day 1 or 2 of the following menstrual cycle, for approximately 65 days. The application will be administered in the morning by the patient onto clean dry healthy skin over external surface of the thighs. The gel will be simply spread on the skin gently as a thin layer. TTG will start on the day of enrollment and will continue until patients' menstruation (28-30 days). Daily administration of TTG or placebo will continue for 35 days (21days until the initial of downregulation with triptorelin and for 14 more days until the initiation of ovarian stimulation with HP-hMG). Ovarian stimulation will commence the day after last testosterone gel application. (GROUP A)

DRUG

Placebo gel

Patients will receive once daily application of 0.55 gr of placebo gel from day 1 or 2 of the following menstrual cycle, for approximately 65 days. The application will be administered in the morning by the patient onto clean dry healthy skin over external surface of the thighs. The gel will be simply spread on the skin gently as a thin layer. Placebo gel will start on the day of enrollment and will continue until patients' menstruation (28-30 days). Daily administration of placebo gel will continue for 35 days (21 days until the initial of downregulation with triptorelin and for 14 more days until the initiation of ovarian stimulation with HP-hMG

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fundacion Dexeus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nikolaos P Polyzos, MD PhD · Fundacion Dexeus

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
43 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-04-30
Primary Completion
2023-12-31
Completion
2024-02-29

Countries

  • Belgium
  • Denmark
  • Spain
  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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