TXA is a promising candidate drug, inexpensive and easy to administer, that can be easily added to the delivery management of women worldwide. Strong evidence that TXA reduces blood transfusion in elective and emergency surgery, outside obstetrics, has been available for many years, whatever the type of surgery (ie cardiac, orthopaedic, hepatic, urological, and vascular surgery). Tranexamic acid was recently shown to reduce bleeding-related mortality among women with postpartum hemorrhage, especially when the drug was administered shortly after delivery. A meta-analysis of data from individual patients including data from patients with trauma and women with postpartum hemorrhage suggested the importance of early treatment.~Several randomized, controlled trials (RCTs), involving women undergoing cesarean delivery, as well have meta-analyses, have shown that the prophylactic intravenous administration of 1 g of tranexamic acid after childbirth reduced blood loss. Most of them were small, single- center trials with considerable methodologic limitations. Thus, no guidelines advocate the use of tranexamic acid to prevent blood loss after cesarean delivery. Moreover, it is important to emphasize that none of these RCTs has included women at increased risk of PPH such as placenta previa, a context in which the prevalence of moderate and severe blood loss is significantly higher and where the magnitude of the effect of TXA may highly differ compared to low risk women.~The aim of our study is to conduct a large multicentre randomised, double blind placebo controlled trial to adequately assess the impact of TXA for preventing PPH following a cesarean delivery in women with placenta previa.
Several randomized, controlled trials, mostly involving women undergoing cesarean delivery, have shown that the prophylactic intravenous administration of 1 g of tranexamic acid after childbirth reduced blood loss. Most were small, single-centre trials with considerable methodologic limitations.~It is important to emphasize that none of these RCTs has included women at increased risk of PPH such as placenta previa, a context in which the prevalence of moderate and severe blood loss is significantly higher and where the magnitude of the effect of TXA may highly differ compared to low risk women