Sequential Volume Measurement of Postpartum Uterus Using 3-dimensional Sonographies (3DUT)

Mahidol University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Ultrasound examination

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00919841

Si 059/2551(EC3)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Women who naturally deliver a singleton will be invited to participate the study. Weekly transabdominal and/or transvaginal ultrasound examinations will be offered until the uterus is completely involuted. The pattern of involution will be analyzed.

Full description

Women who naturally deliver a singleton in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital will be invited to participate the study. Weekly transabdominal and/or transvaginal ultrasound examinations will be offered until the uterus is completely involuted. Transabdominal or transvaginal approach will be at the examiner's discretion. Uterine volume will be measured with 3-dimensional sonographic technologies. Ovaries will also be assessed, along with Doppler flow in several vessels in the pelvis. The pattern of involution will be analyzed.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women who deliver a singleton vaginally will be invited to participate the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Women who deliver multiple gestation.
• Women who deliver by Cesarean section
• Women who have puerperal complications eg. postpartum hemorrhage or infection

Trial design

80 participants in 1 patient group

Postpartum women

Description:

Women who deliver a singleton vaginally

Treatment:

Other: Ultrasound examination