World Maternal Antifibrinolytic Trial_2

Summary

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is responsible for about 100,000 maternal deaths every year, almost all of which occur in low and middle income countries. When given within three hours of birth, tranexamic acid reduces deaths due to bleeding in women with PPH by almost one third. However, for many women, treatment of PPH is too late to prevent death and severe morbidities. Over one-third of pregnant women in the world are anaemic and many are severely anaemic. We now want to do the WOMAN-2 trial to see if giving tranexamic acid can prevent PPH and other severe outcomes in women with moderate and severe anaemia.

Timeline

Start

2019-08-24

Primary completion

2023-09-20

Completion

2023-10-29

Publications

• WOMAN-2 Trial Collaborators. The effect of tranexamic acid on postpartum bleeding in women with moderate and severe anaemia (WOMAN-2): an international, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2024 Oct 26;404(10463):1645-1656. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01749-5.
• Larson NJ, Mergoum AM, Dries DJ, Cook A, Blondeau B, Rogers FB. THE ROLE OF TRANEXAMIC ACID IN POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE: A NARRATIVE REVIEW. Shock. 2024 Nov 1;62(5):620-627. doi: 10.1097/SHK.0000000000002455. Epub 2024 Aug 20.
• Collier T, Shakur-Still H, Roberts I, Balogun E, Olayemi O, Bello FA, Chaudhri R, Muganyizi P; WOMAN-2 Trial Collaborators. Tranexamic acid for the prevention of postpartum bleeding in women with anaemia: Statistical analysis plan for the WOMAN-2 trial: an international, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Gates Open Res. 2023 Aug 3;7:69. doi: 10.12688/gatesopenres.14529.2. eCollection 2023.
• Brenner A, Roberts I, Balogun E, Bello FA, Chaudhri R, Fleming C, Javaid K, Kayani A, Lubeya MK, Mansukhani R, Olayemi O, Prowse D, Vwalika B, Shakur-Still H. Postpartum haemorrhage in anaemic women: assessing outcome measures for clinical trials. Trials. 2022 Mar 18;23(1):220. doi: 10.1186/s13063-022-06140-z.
• Ker K, Roberts I, Chaudhri R, Fawole B, Beaumont D, Balogun E, Prowse D, Pepple T, Javaid K, Kayani A, Arulkumaran S, Bates I, Shakur-Still H; WOMAN-2 trial collaborators. Tranexamic acid for the prevention of postpartum bleeding in women with anaemia: study protocol for an international, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Trials. 2018 Dec 29;19(1):712. doi: 10.1186/s13063-018-3081-x.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.