# The Use of Antibiotics After Hospital Discharge in Septic Abortion

> **NCT00353743** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre** · enrollment: 56 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Abortion, Septic

## Interventions

- **DRUG:** placebo
- **DRUG:** doxycycline plus metronidazole

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00353743
- **Lead sponsor:** Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2006-05
- **Primary completion:** 2007-11
- **Final completion:** 2007-12
- **Target enrollment:** 56 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Rate of cure was higher than expected, IRB suspended for no additional benefit
- **Last updated:** 2008-12-19


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00353743

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00353743, "The Use of Antibiotics After Hospital Discharge in Septic Abortion". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-05 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00353743. Licensed CC0.

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