Clinical Trial of Hysteroscopy in Postmenopausal Women to Compare Techniques

University of Campinas, Brazil

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Postmenopausal Women

Hysteroscopy

Treatments

Procedure: procedure hysteroscopy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01376934

01/2011/PC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nowadays,hysteroscopy is a golden standard procedure to describe the morphology of uterine cavity and investigate of abnormal uterine bleeding . The success of the procedure is based on the distension of the cavity . It can cause pain and discomfort and sometimes the procedure fails. . There are two techniques to make the procedure , one with gas and the other with saline solution. Objective: to compare two techniques concerning pain , procedure duration and image quality

Full description

The objective of this study is to compare two techniques in office hysteroscopy.In this clinical trial postmenopausal women will undergo a diagnostic hysteroscopy using carbon dioxide or saline solution to uterine cavity distension.

There will be two groups of 70 women each. The objective is to determine which technique provides better image,time of procedure and less discomfort.

Enrollment

140 estimated patients

Sex

Female

Ages

40 to 70 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria