ClinicalTrials.gg
RecruitingNCT05460416TePPAFETUpdated Feb 18, 2025

Treatment Preventive for Pre-eclampsia by Acetylsalicylic Acid in Women Who Underwent Frozen Embryo Transfer

A Phase 3 interventional study of Acetylsalicylic acid in Embryo Transfer and Hypertension, Pregnancy Induced, sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liege. Recruiting at 1 site in Belgium. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 43 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-02-18.

Sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liege · Phase 3, Interventional, and Prevention

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Dec 2025, 10 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Oct 2022; still recruiting 4 years later.
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
276
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 43 Years
Sex
Female
01

Study summary

Title: A prospective multicentric interventional randomized controlled trial to assess the effect of low dose acetylsalicylic acid as a preventive treatment of pre-eclampsia in pregnant women who underwent frozen embryo transfer

Read the detailed description

Method: Prospective, interventional, multicentric randomized controlled trial, to evaluate the utility of a preventive treatment with low dose acetylsalicylic acid from the embryo transfer and throughout pregnancy in patients who have had a frozen embryo transfer.

During the first consultation, patients will be introduced to the study. They can choose to participate or not. If they agree to participate, they will be randomized in two groups (1:1), treated or not. The randomization will be realized by the RedCap software. Patients with natural and modified natural cycle and hormone replacement treatment (HRT) cycle will be included. As soon as an evolutive intrauterine pregnancy is diagnosed, in the treated group, she will receive a daily dose of 160mg acetylsalicylic acid, until 36 weeks of amenorrhea. Patients of both groups will be followed twice a month (regular prenatal visit and phone call).

Primary goal: To assess the incidence of pre-eclamspia in women who underwent a frozen embryo transfer treated with 160mg of acetylsalicylic acid versus no treatment.

Primary endpoint: Mean number of women suffering from preeclampsia in the treated and not treated groups.

Secondary goals:

  • To assess the incidence of pre-eclampsia in women who underwent a frozen embryo transfer in natural and modified natural cycle treated with 160mg acetylsalicylic acid versus without treatment Secondary Endpoint 1: mean number of women suffering from pre-eclampsia in treated and without treatment groups in women in natural and modified natural cycle
  • To assess the incidence of pre-eclampsia in women who underwent a frozen embryo transfer in HRT cycle treated with 160mg acetylsalicylic acid versus without treatment Secondary Endpoint 2: mean number of women suffering from pre-eclampsia in treated and without treatment groups in women in HRT cycle
  • To assess the number of miscarriage in frozen embryo transfer with natural and modified natural cycle and with HRT cycle.

Secondary Endpoint 3: mean number of miscarriage

  • To assess the number of pre-eclampsia in frozen embryo transfer with natural and modified natural cycle and with HRT cycle.

Secondary Endpoint 4: mean number of pre-eclampsia

Duration: the study duration for the participant will be maximum 12 months (from inclusion before embryo transfer until delivery). The total duration study will be maximum 4 years from the first patient first inclusion visit until the last visit of study patient.

Number of participants: 120 patients per group, HRT cycle versus without treatment, spontaneous cycle vs without treatment. Due to miscarriage risk, a total of 276 women will be enrolled.

Inclusion criteria:

  • Healthy women from [18 - 43] years-old, planned for a frozen embryo transfer, with natural and modified natural or HRT cycle
  • Who have given their informed consent
  • Who have a confirmed pregnancy at week 6 of amenorrhea.

Exclusion criteria

  • Women presenting one risk factor for preeclampsia: multiple pregnancy, history of preeclampsia, BMI > 30, lupus syndrome, preexistent proteinuria, non-treated chronic high blood pressure (>140/90), antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, diabetes (fasting blood sugar >126mg/dl)
  • Contraindication to acetylsalicylic acid (at risk of active hemorrhage (like hemophilia, ...); at risk of or who have a gastro-duodenal ulcer; at risk or how have a terminal renal or hepatic in-sufficiency (only if acetylsalicylic acid is given at high dose)
  • Already treated with acetylsalicylic acid
  • Treatment with anticoagulants or non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs
02

Conditions studied

  • Embryo Transfer
  • Hypertension, Pregnancy Induced

Keywords

  • embryo transfer
  • Hypertension, Pregnancy induced
03

In context

Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced

262 studies on the registry are indexed under Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced; 71 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 276 is above the median of 147 across 174 interventional studies indexed under Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced.

Browse Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced studies →

Lead sponsor

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liege is the lead sponsor of 40 studies on the registry; 26 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

04

Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 43 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  • Healthy women from [18 - 43] years-old, planned for a frozen embryo transfer, with natural and modified natural or HRT cycle
  • Who have given their
  • Who have a confirmed pregnancy at week 6 of amenorrhea.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Women presenting one risk factor for preeclampsia: multiple pregnancy, history of preeclampsia, > 30, lupus syndrome, preexistent proteinuria, non-treated chronic high blood pressure (>140/90), antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, diabetes (fasting blood sugar >126mg/dl)
  • to acetylsalicylic acid (at risk of active hemorrhage (like hemophilia, ...); at risk of or who have a gastro-duodenal ulcer; at risk or how have a terminal renal or hepatic in-sufficiency (only if acetylsalicylic acid is given at high dose)
  • Already treated with acetylsalicylic acid
  • Treatment with anticoagulants or non- anti-inflammatory drugs
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(4)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

05

Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Investigator)
Enrollment
276 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Treatment by acetylsalicylic acid

    Drug: Acetylsalicylic acid

  • No intervention
    No treatment

Interventions

06

What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Mean number of women suffering from pre-eclampsia in the treated and not treated groups.

    Time frame: 4 years

07

Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège site Citadelle
    Liège, Belgium
    Recruiting
08

References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

09

Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Oct 2022 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2025, 38 months after the start.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jul 11, 2022
First posted
Jul 15, 2022
StartActual
Oct 25, 2022
Primary completionEst.
Dec 31, 2025
CompletionEst.
Jun 30, 2026
Last update
Feb 18, 2025
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.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 18, 2025, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
10

Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05460416
Lead sponsor
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liege
Responsible party
Julie Collee (Doctor, specialist in Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Régional de la Citadelle) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jul 15, 2022
Start date
Oct 25, 2022
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 30, 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 18, 2025

Study contacts

Julie Collée
Contact
julie.collee@uliege.be
+32498973386
Marie Timmermans
Contact
marie.timmermans@chuliege.be;
Laurie Henry
principal investigator · Centre Hospitalier Régional de la Citadelle

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
View the source record on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

Interested in this study?

Eligibility is decided by the study team. Share this record with your doctor or contact the team directly.

Contact study team

Follow this study

Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.

Sign in to follow

Discussion

Questions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.

Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.

Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.

Studies of the drug tested here: Aspirin

Start the discussion