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Cervical pessary versus vaginal progesterone in women with a singleton pregnancy, a short cervix, and no history of spontaneous preterm birth at less than 34 weeks' gestation: open label, multicentre, randomised, controlled trial

Objective To compare the effectiveness of cervical pessary and vaginal progesterone in the prevention of adverse perinatal outcomes and preterm birth in pregnant women of singletons with no prior spontaneous preterm birth at less than 34 weeks’ gestation and who have a short cervix of 35 mm or less.

Design Open label, multicentre, randomised, controlled trial.

Setting 20 hospitals and five obstetric ultrasound practices in the Netherlands.

Participants Women with a healthy singleton pregnancy and an asymptomatic short cervix of 35 mm or less between 18 and 22 weeks’ gestation were eligible. Exclusion criteria were prior spontaneous preterm birth at less than 34 weeks, a cerclage in situ, maternal age of younger than 18 years, major congenital abnormalities, prior participation in this trial, vaginal blood loss, contractions, cervical length of less than 2 mm or cervical dilatation of 3 cm or more. Sample size was set at 628 participants.

Interventions 1:1 randomisation to an Arabin cervical pessary or vaginal progesterone 200 mg daily up to 36 weeks’ of gestation or earlier in case of ruptured membranes, signs of infection, or preterm labour besides routine obstetric care.

Main outcome measures Primary outcome was a composite adverse perinatal outcome. Secondary outcomes were rates of (spontaneous) preterm birth at less than 28, 32, 34, and 37 weeks. A predefined subgroup analysis was planned for cervical length of 25 mm or less.

Results From 1 July 2014 to 31 March 2022, 635 participants were randomly assigned to pessary (n=315) or to progesterone (n=320). 612 were included in the intention to treat analysis. The composite adverse perinatal outcome occurred in 19 (6%) of 303 participants with a pessary versus 17 (6%) of 309 in the progesterone group (crude relative risk 1.1 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.60 to 2.2)). The rates of spontaneous preterm birth were not significantly different between groups. In the subgroup of cervical length of 25 mm or less, spontaneous preterm birth at less than 28 weeks occurred more often after pessary than after progesterone (10/62 (16%) v 3/69 (4%), relative risk 3.7 (95% CI 1.1 to 12.9)) and adverse perinatal outcomes seemed more frequent in the pessary group (15/62 (24%) v 8/69 (12%), relative risk 2.1 (0.95 to 4.6)).

Conclusions In women with a singleton pregnancy with no prior spontaneous preterm birth at less than 34 weeks’ gestation and with a midtrimester short cervix of 35 mm or less, pessary is not better than vaginal progesterone. In the subgroup of a cervical length of 25 mm or less, a pessary seemed less effective in preventing adverse outcomes. Overall, for women with single baby pregnancies, a short cervix, and no prior spontaneous preterm birth less than 34 weeks’ gestation, superiority of a cervical pessary compared with vaginal progesterone to prevent preterm birth and consecutive adverse outcomes could not be proven.

Trial registration International Clinical Trial Registry Platform (ICTRP, [EUCTR2013-002884-24-NL][1])

Individual participant data that underlies the results reported in this article, after de-identification (text, tables, figures, and appendices) will be available. Study protocol and statistical analysis plan are available too. Informed consent form and analytic code can be provided upon request. The data will be available immediately following publication and will have no end date. Data are available for investigators whose proposed use of the data has been approved by an independent review committee (“learned intermediary”) identified for the purpose of individual participant data meta-analysis. Proposals may be submitted to the corresponding author up to 36 months following article publication.

[1]: https://trialsearch.who.int/Trial2.aspx?TrialID=EUCTR2013-002884-24-NL

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