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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 21 January 2013
Main ID:  NCT00995878
Date of registration: 13/10/2009
Primary sponsor: Mayo Clinic
Public title: The FIRSTT: Comparing MRgFUS(MR-guided Focused Ultrasound) Versus UAE (Uterine Artery Embolization)for Uterine Fibroids.
Scientific title: The FIRSTT Study: Comparing Focused Ultrasound and Uterine Artery Embolization for Uterine Fibroids
Date of first enrolment: October 2009
Target sample size: 180
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00995878
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Lisa G. Peterson, RN
Address: 
Telephone: 507-266-4813
Email: mayofibroids@mayo.edu
Affiliation: 
Name:   Elizabeth A. Stewart, M.D.
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Mayo Clinic
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Women able to give informed consent and willing and able to attend all study visits

2. Premenopausal women at least 25 years of age

3. No evidence of High Grade SIL by pap smears or HPV testing within institutional
guidelines.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Women actively trying for pregnancy or currently pregnant

2. Uterine size > 20 weeks

3. Prior myomectomy, UAE, or MRgFUS. Previous hysteroscopic or laparoscopic myomectomy
for the removal of only pedunculated leiomyomas (as described in #17, below) will be
allowed and evaluated on an individual basis to determine eligibility for treatment.

4. More than 6 fibroids > than 3 centimeters in maximal diameter

5. Allergy to either gadolinium or iodinated contrast

6. Implanted metallic device prohibiting MRI

7. Severe claustrophobia

8. BMI which prohibits subject from fitting in MRI device

9. Severe abdominal scarring precluding safe MRgFUS treatment

10. Active pelvic infection

11. Intrauterine contraceptive device in place at the time of treatment

12. Current use of GnRH agonists or antagonists

13. Unstable medical conditions requiring additional monitoring during the procedure

14. Bleeding diathesis requiring medical treatment

15. Imaging suggestive of malignant disease of uterus, ovary, or cervix

16. Imaging suggestive of only adenomyosis

17. Pedunculated submucosal or subserosal myoma with a stalk less than 25% of the maximal
fibroid diameter



Age minimum: 25 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Fibroids
Myomas
Symptomatic Uterine Leiomyomas
Uterine Fibroids
Intervention(s)
Procedure: Focused ultrasound (MRgFUS)
Procedure: Uterine artery embolization (UAE)
Primary Outcome(s)
Symptomatic outcomes measured by validated instruments [Time Frame: At baseline, 6 weeks and 6, 12, 24, and 36 months following treatment.]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Adverse events following treatment [Time Frame: At baseline, 6 weeks and 6, 12, 24 and 36 months following treatment.]
Biologic predictors of outcome [Time Frame: Blood sample is obtained at baseline and at 12, 24, and 36 months following treatment]
Secondary ID(s)
09-005095
1RC1HD063312-01
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
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