The Effect of Oral Isosorbide Mononitrate Therapy on Umbilical Artery Doppler Resistance Index in Pregnancies With Intrauterine Growth Restriction: Prospective Randomized Control Trial

The Effect of Oral Isosorbide Mononitrate Therapy on Umbilical Artery Doppler Resistance Index in Pregnancies With Intrauterine Growth Restriction: Prospective Randomized Control Trial

Will follow up umblical artery Doppler indices for pregnancies with iugr taking placebo and oral isosorbide mononitrate to study its efficacy on the intrauterine growth restricted fetuses

Patients meeting these criteria are to be randomized into one of the following two groups:

• Group A (n=23): The Isosorbide Mononitrate group: will receive (IMDUR®, 30 mg, tablet, AstraZeneca, Egypt) (Isosorbide-5-mononitrate Biphasic) twice daily for 4-6 weeks (according to xPharm: The Comprehensive Pharmacology Reference, 2007, Pages 1-4).
• Group B (n=23): The placebo group will receive (Osteocare®, tab, VITABIOTICS, Egypt) twice daily for 4-6 weeks Justification: Using PASS 11 program for sample size calculation, setting power at 80% and alpha error at 0.05 and according to "Trapani et al., 2015", the expected change in UTA-PI in isosorbide mononitrate group=21% compared to no change in placebo group. Sample size of 23 women per group will be needed to detect difference between two groups.

The study is to be double-blinded, where neither the researcher, nor the participants will know what type of medication each participant will receive, as a nurse will give each patient a closed envelope containing 21 tablets of one of the above two medications in a randomized fashion.

Inclusion Criteria:

• age : 18-34 BMI: 18-30 Singleton pregnancy Gestational age between 28-30 Criteria of IUGR

Exclusion Criteria:

Had known or suspected chromosomal or structural anomaly Had a condition which will require delivery Multiple pregnancy

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