Clinical trialNCT00589329TerminatedInterventional

Antibiotics and the Prolongation of Pregnancy in Preterm Labor With an Advanced Cervical Exam

SponsorMetroHealth Medical CenterEnrollment20Length of Pregnancy Prolongation in Hours

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Summary

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Preterm birth remains a major health concern affecting up to 12% of all live births prior to 37 weeks gestation. As preterm birth can often be associated with infection our proposal is to evaluate in a randomized fashion antibiotics for women with advanced cervical exams.

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Investigators

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Brian Mercer, M.D.
MetroHealth Medical Center MFM Director
Principal Investigator
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Thaddeus Waters, M.D.
MetroHealth Medical Center
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Metrohealth Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Erythromycin and metronidazolePlacebo

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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Dec 2007
Primary completion: 31 Oct 2012
Completion: 31 Oct 2012
Last update posted: 4 Sept 2019
Registered enrollment: 20
Registry id: NCT00589329

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.