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Not yet recruitingNCT06234449Updated May 21, 2024

The Impact of Long-term Pessary Use on Pelvic Organ Prolapse oìduring Covid-19 Pandemic in Patients Attending Surgery

An observational study in Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Vaginal Prolapse, sponsored by IRCCS San Raffaele. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in Italy. Open to female participants aged 45 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-05-21.

Primary conditionUterine ProlapseRegistry: Pelvic Organ ProlapseReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Pelvic Organ Prolapse — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Uterine Prolapse
Why
  1. The study's listed conditions name Uterine Prolapse, a narrower term within Pelvic Organ Prolapse.
Confidence
High: the new condition is named in the study's own listed conditions. Of 351 hand-checked studies reclassified this way, 68% were exactly right and 84% in the right disease family; the registry's first term was right for 5% (measured 2026-10-21). How we classify →
Wrong?
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Sponsored by IRCCS San Raffaele · Observational

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Mar 2026, 8 months ago, but the record still lists the study as not yet recruiting.
Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
200
Ages
45 Years to 80 Years
Sex
Female
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Study summary

Patients aged 45 to 80 years with a clinical diagnosis of stage III and IV genital prolapse involving the anterior and/or middle compartments and candidates for surgery will be considered. These will be evaluated to observe whether there is improvement in clinical prolapse with the use of the vaginal pessary during the waiting period for surgery

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Conditions studied

  • Pelvic Organ Prolapse
  • Vaginal Prolapse

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In context

Uterine Prolapse Reclassified

111 studies on the registry are indexed under Uterine Prolapse; 18 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 200 is above the median of 99 across 34 observational studies indexed under Uterine Prolapse.

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Lead sponsor

IRCCS San Raffaele is the lead sponsor of 453 studies on the registry; 234 are open to participants now.

Compared within Uterine Prolapse, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Pelvic Organ Prolapse. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
45 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

Women with symptomatic and documented POP (stages III and IV) through POPQ examination who opted for reconstructive surgery and managed with pessary until surgery will be included in the cohort.

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Inclusion criteria

  • Pelvic organ prolapse with POP-Q stage >/= 3 in anterior and/or central compartments
  • Women between 45 and 80 years old

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Women who refuse to participate in the study
  • Patients without baseline POPQ examination documented or with a pessary previously positioned
  • Previous pelvic surgeries
  • Women with any for surgery or preference for conservative treatment only (pelvic muscle exercise, vaginal pessary)
  • Women who are not successfully fitted with pessaries
  • Current genital ulcers/infections
  • Active or chronic pelvic infection
  • Women who are mentally incapable of completing the questionnaires.
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.

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.

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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
200 participants (estimated)
Target follow-up
3 Years
Patient registry
Yes

Interventions

  • ProcedureVaginal pessary before surgery for pelvic organ prolapse

    use of vaginal pessary for patients waiting for gynecological surgery for stage III and IV pelvic organ prolapse

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. evaluate a change in POPQ points on examination at the time of surgery from baseline evaluation.

    Primary endopoint is the evaluation of the percentage of women who experience a change in any POPQ point on examination at the time of surgery from baseline evaluation.

    Time frame: At the time of surgery procedure, after at least 6 months after pessary placement

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

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 2024; primary completion for Mar 2026, 20 months later.

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

Registered
Jan 25, 2024
First posted
Jan 31, 2024
StartEst.
Jul 2024
Primary completionEst.
Mar 2026
CompletionEst.
Mar 2026
Last update
May 21, 2024
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 May 21, 2024, 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
NCT06234449
Lead sponsor
IRCCS San Raffaele
Responsible party
Stefano Salvatore (Professor, IRCCS San Raffaele) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jan 31, 2024
Start date
Jul 2024 (estimated)
Primary completion
Mar 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 2026 (estimated)
Last update
May 21, 2024

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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