ClinicalTrials.gg
Not yet recruitingNCT05481606Updated Aug 1, 2022

Cesarean Scar Pregnancy and Clinical Outcomes

An observational study in Blood Loss, Repeat Cesarean Section and Maternal Transmission, sponsored by Peking University Third Hospital. Not yet recruiting. Open to female participants aged 20 Years to 49 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-08-01.

Sponsored by Peking University Third Hospital · Observational

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Aug 2023, 3 years 3 months ago, but the record still lists the study as not yet recruiting.
Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
500
Ages
20 Years to 49 Years
Sex
Female
01

Study summary

This study is a prospective cohort study, led by Prof. Zhao Yangyu, from the Department of Gynecology \& Obstetrics, Peking University Third Hospital.

Read the detailed description

Cesarean section, myomectomy and other surgeries for uterus are likely to cause scars in different parts of the uterus. During the subsequent pregnancy, the incidence rate of cesarean scar pregnancy, placenta previa, placenta increta and the risk of termination of the first and mid-trimester pregnancy is likely to increase. Cesarean scar pregnancy is regarded as a risk factor of uterine rupture in the third trimester of pregnancy or delivery period, which severely affects the maternal and perinatal health and safety. This study is planning to prospectively include pregnant women aged 20-49 years from Peking University Third Hospital. All women with diagnosis on cesarean scar pregnancy was included prior to 14 wks of gestation. We divided the women into three different groups: type I, type II and type III according to characteristics in gestation sac,uterine scar, bladder, the latter with potentially worse outcomes in term of maternal morbidity and mortality. Data including demographics, medical history, reproductive history, prenatal health care, gestational complications, and pregnancy and birth outcomes will be collected via electronic data capture system.

02

Conditions studied

  • Blood Loss
  • Repeat Cesarean Section
  • Maternal Transmission
  • Hysterectomy
  • Placenta Accreta Spectrum
  • Abortion
03

In context

Hemorrhage

1,383 studies on the registry are indexed under Hemorrhage; 244 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 500 is above the median of 215 across 397 observational studies indexed under Hemorrhage.

Browse Hemorrhage studies →

Lead sponsor

Peking University Third Hospital is the lead sponsor of 752 studies on the registry; 273 are open to participants now.

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

04

Who can participate

Ages eligible
20 Years to 49 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

This study is planning to include 1000 pregnant women with uterine scar aged 20 years from Peking University Third Hospital. Pregnant women who are planning to recieve prenatal healthcare and delivery in this hospital are potential candidates for the study.

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

  • Female aged ≥ 20 years
  • Female with cesarean scar pregnancy
  • Less than 14 gestational weeks
  • Planning to receive prenatal healthcare and delivery service at the study hospital

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Inability to provide
  • Women with mental disorders
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(1)

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.

05

Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
500 participants (estimated)
Target follow-up
2 Years
Patient registry
Yes
Biospecimen retention
Samples without dna

Groups and cohorts

  • Type I

    1) the gestational sac is partially implanted in the uterine scar, partially or mostly located in the uterine cavity, and a few may even reach the uterine cavity at the bottom of the palace; 2) the gestational sac is significantly deformed, and elongated, and its the lower end presented a acute Angle; 3) The myometrium between the gestational sac and the bladder became thinner, with a thickness of \>3 mm; 4) Doppler flow image: trophoblast blood flow signal can be seen in the scar (low resistance blood flow)

  • Type II

    1) The gestating sac is partially implanted in the scar of the uterus, partially or mostly located in the uterine cavity, and a few may even reach the uterine cavity at the bottom of the uterus; 2)the gestational sac is significantly deformed, and elongated, and its the lower end presented a acute Angle; 3) The myometrium between the stretch and the bladder becomes thinner (3 mm in thickness); 4) color Doppler flow image: trophoblast blood flow signal (low resistance blood flow) can be seen in the scar.

  • Type III

    1) The gestating sac is completely implanted in the muscle layer of the scar of the uterus and protrudes outward toward the bladder; 2) Uterine cavity and cervical canal emptiness; 3) The myometrium between the gestational sac and the bladder was significantly thinner or absent, with a thickness of 3 mm; 4) color Doppler flow image: trophoblast blood flow signal (low resistance blood flow) can be seen in the scar. Among them, there is a special ultrasonic manifestation of cesarean scar pregnancy in type III, namely mass type, whose sonographic characteristics

06

What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of blood loss

    blood loss

    Time frame: delivery

  2. Incidence of postpartum hemorrhage

    postpartum hemorrhage

    Time frame: delivery

  3. Incidence of maternal transfusion

    maternal transfusion

    Time frame: delivery

  4. Incidence of spontaneous abortion

    spontaneous abortion

    Time frame: delivery

  5. Incidence of stillbirth

    stillbirth

    Time frame: delivery

  6. Incidence of perinatal death

    perinatal death

    Time frame: 42 days postpartum

Secondary outcomes

  1. Maternal death

    Deaths during pregnancy or less than 42 days after termination of pregnancy

    Time frame: At 24-28 weeks

  2. Maternal death

    Deaths during pregnancy or less than 42 days after termination of pregnancy

    Time frame: 42 days postpartum

  3. The rate of repeated cesarean delivery

    Cesarean rate is defined as the number of cesarean delivery divided by the number of live births.

    Time frame: At delivery

07

Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

08

References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

09

Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Start is estimated for Aug 2022; primary completion for Aug 2023, 12 months later.

Of 133 non-industry observational studies under Hemorrhage, half reached primary completion within 37 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 15 and three quarters within 78. This study's planned 12 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 157 studies reached it within 33 months; a quarter within 14 and three quarters within 71.

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

Registered
Jul 27, 2022
First posted
Aug 1, 2022
StartEst.
Aug 1, 2022
Primary completionEst.
Aug 1, 2023
CompletionEst.
Aug 1, 2025
Last update
Aug 1, 2022
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 Aug 1, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
10

Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05481606
Responsible party
Zhao Yangyu (Chief of obstetrics, Peking University Third Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Aug 1, 2022
Start date
Aug 1, 2022 (estimated)
Primary completion
Aug 1, 2023 (estimated)
Completion
Aug 1, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 1, 2022

Study contacts

Yangyu Zhao, MD
Contact
zhaoyangyu@bjmu.edu.cn
13701118357

Oversight

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

Not currently enrolling

This study is not yet recruiting, as verified in Jul 2022. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.

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.

Start the discussion