Status:

COMPLETED

Women With Epilepsy: Pregnancy Outcomes and Deliveries

Lead Sponsor:

NYU Langone Health

Collaborating Sponsors:

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Northwell Health

Conditions:

Epilepsy

Eligibility:

FEMALE

18-40 years

Brief Summary

This is a three-center prospective case-control study to examine the patterns of fertility among women with epilepsy (WWE) compared to an age-matched group of women without epilepsy (WWoE).

Detailed Description

This is a three-center prospective case-control study to examine the patterns of fertility among women with epilepsy (WWE) compared to an age-matched group of women without epilepsy (WWoE). The invest...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • between ages 18 and 40
  • planning pregnancy
  • stopped birth control or planning to stop birth control
  • for women with epilepsy: receiving at least one AED (lamotrigine, levetiracetam, carbamazepine, phenytoin, oxcarbazepine, phenobarbital, topiramate, rufinamide). If on polytherapy, AEDs cannot include lamotrigine, levetiracetam or valproate.

Exclusion

  • Use of hormonal therapies for contraception
  • demonstrated infertility with the same partner (more than 12 months of unprotected intercourse without achieving pregnancy)
  • diagnosis of infertility
  • Polycystic ovarian syndrome
  • severe endometriosis
  • currently breastfeeding
  • male factor infertility
  • surgical or medical menopause
  • smokers who have more than 10 cigarettes per day
  • untreated thyroid disease
  • hyperprolactinemia or other pituitary disease
  • recently trying to achieve pregnancy for more than 6 months with having regular vaginal sexual intercourse without contraception

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

November 1 2010

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

March 1 2015

Estimated Enrollment :

199 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01259310

Start Date

November 1 2010

End Date

March 1 2015

Last Update

March 7 2016

Active Locations (3)

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Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115

2

North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System

Great Neck, New York, United States, 11021

3

NYU Langone Medical Center

New York, New York, United States, 10016