Warm Contrast Media for Pain Reduction During Hystersalpingography

Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Infertility

Treatments: Procedure: Temperature of contrast medium

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00391781

WARMHSG.CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to compare between body-temperature to room-temperature contrast media used during hysterosalpingography. We hypothesize that warmed medium will reduce pain associated with the procedure.

Full description

Infertility occurs in about 15% of all couples. One of the common methods for evaluation of mechanical infertility is hysterosalpingography (HSG). Several reports have shown that this common procedure is associated with moderate pain, i.e. around 5 on a visual analog scale (VAS)of 1-10. It is therefore important to find modes for pain reduction for HSG. According to a report on sonohydrosonograpy, a similar technique using sonography, insertion of media warmed to body temperature into the uterus significantly reduced the pain during the procedure compared with media at room-temprature. The use of room-temperature media is the routine in our institution, as well as in many others. A comparison between the media at different temperatures has not been reported so far.

We plan to perform a prospective trial in which patients referred for HSG will be randomized to the procedure using either warmed or room-temperature media. we will asses pain levels using VAS during the procedure.

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis: infertility
• sex: female
• age: 18-45

Exclusion criteria

• active pelvic inflammotory disease
• known sensitivity to contrast medium

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind