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Status unknownNCT04975984Updated Jul 26, 2021

Expectant Management of Ectopic Pregnancy

An observational study in Ectopic Pregnancy, sponsored by Ain Shams University. Status unknown at 1 site in Egypt. Open to female participants. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-07-26.

Sponsored by Ain Shams University · Observational

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Jul 2021), so the status shown — last known as Not yet recruiting — may be out of date.
Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
50
Sex
Female
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Study summary

The aim of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of expectant management in the treatment of tubal ectopic pregnancy and identification of different factors that can be used to predict its success.

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Conditions studied

  • Ectopic Pregnancy

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In context

Pregnancy, Ectopic

83 studies on the registry are indexed under Pregnancy, Ectopic; 21 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 50 is below the median of 150 across 39 observational studies indexed under Pregnancy, Ectopic.

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Lead sponsor

Ain Shams University is the lead sponsor of 1,950 studies on the registry; 429 are open to participants now.

Of its 35 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 0 (0%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Child (0–17), Adult (18–64), Older adult (65+)
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

Participants included in this study will have the following criteria:

  1. Hemodynamically stable with confirmed diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy on ultrasound scan.
  2. No significant pelvic pain.
  3. No hemoperitoneum.
  4. No fetal heart in the ectopic pregnancy.
  5. HCG level \<5000 IU/L.
  6. Expectant management was the first line of management offered to the patient after optimal counseling.

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Inclusion criteria

  • all women who underwent expectant management as the of management offered after optimal counseling during the period from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2020.
  1. Hemodynamically stable with confirmed diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy on ultrasound scan.
  2. No significant pelvic pain.
  3. No hemoperitoneum.
  4. No fetal heart in the ectopic pregnancy.
  5. HCG level \<5000 IU/L.
  6. Expectant management was the first line of management offered to the patient after optimal counseling.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. all women with non tubal ectopic pregnancy
  2. all women with tubal ectopic pregnancy that recieved medical or surgical treatment as treatment
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(1)

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Line of therapy

A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.

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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
50 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No

Interventions

  • Diagnostic testqualitative hCG levels and ultrasound criteria

    detect upper limit of qualitative hCG levels associated with successful expectant management of ectopic pregnancy

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. resolution of hCG level

    hCG levels measured every week till negative less than (\<20 IU/l) up to 12 weeks

    Time frame: up to 12 weeks

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Study locations

1 site
  • Ain Shams university maternity hospital
    Cairo, Egypt
    • Ahmed Essam · Contact
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Start is estimated for Jul 2021; primary completion for Dec 2021, 4 months later.

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Registered
Jun 17, 2021
First posted
Jul 26, 2021
StartEst.
Jul 20, 2021
Primary completionEst.
Dec 1, 2021
CompletionEst.
Dec 31, 2021
Last update
Jul 26, 2021
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
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No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 26, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04975984
Responsible party
Radwa Rasheedy Ali (associate professor, Ain Shams University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jul 26, 2021
Start date
Jul 20, 2021 (estimated)
Primary completion
Dec 1, 2021 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2021 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 26, 2021

Study contacts

Radwa Rasheedy, MD
Contact
radwaebed@yahoo.com
01283492979 ext. 02

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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