NCT03449277

Oral Nifedipine Versus Labetalol in Treatment of Postpartum Hypertension

Status unknown Phase 4 Last updated 4 April 2018

What this trial tests

Phase 4 trial testing Oral Tablet in Postpartum Preeclampsia in 100 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

19 January 2018

Primary endpoint
1 February 2019

1 March 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Hossam Ahmed Abd Ellah
Phase	Phase 4
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	100
Start date	19 January 2018
Primary completion	1 February 2019
Estimated completion	1 March 2019
Sites	1 location across Egypt

Drugs / interventions tested

• Oral Tablet

Conditions studied

• Postpartum Preeclampsia — all drugs for Postpartum Preeclampsia →

Sponsor

Hossam Ahmed Abd Ellah

Who can join

Adults 20 to 40, female only, with Postpartum Preeclampsia. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are important cause of severe morbidity, long-term disability and death among both mothers and their babies. In Africa and Asia, nearly one tenth of all maternal deaths are associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy research has focused on the antenatal complications' for both mother and baby and the risks and benefits of administering antihypertensive therapy prior to delivery hypertension disorders of pregnancy often persist following delivery and sometimes arise de novo postpartum one of the maternal complications of pre eclampsia is residual chronic hypertension in about 1/3 of cases elevated blood pressure is seen in 6%to 8% of all pregnancies hypertension (arterial pressure \>140/90 mmhg) in pregnancy is classified into one of four conditions

1. chronic hypertension that precedes pregnancy
2. pre eclampsia and eclampsia: a systematic syndrome of elevated arterial pressure,proteinuria and other findings
3. pre eclampsia superimposed upon chronic hypertension
4. gestational hypertension or nonproteinuric hypertension of pregnancy

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.