Progesterone for Maintenance Tocolysis: A Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial
Status:
Terminated
Trial end date:
2015-03-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Preterm delivery is the most common cause of infant morbidity and mortality in the United
States. Some women have episodes of preterm labor during their pregnancy which can be
temporarily stopped. These women, however, are at high risk for delivering before term. At
this time, we do not have sufficient evidence to use any medication to help prevent these
women from delivering early. Recently, preliminary studies have shown that progesterone may
help prevent some women at high risk for preterm delivery from delivering early. Our study
will investigate whether progesterone can help this specific group of women, women with
arrested preterm labor, deliver healthy infants at term.