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Emergency Postcoital Contraception
New England Journal of Medicine, 1997Emergency postcoital contraception may be defined as the use of a drug or device to prevent pregnancy after intercourse. Unwanted pregnancy is common; worldwide, about 50 million pregnancies are terminated each year.1 It has been calculated that each year the widespread use of emergency contraception in the United States could prevent over 1 million ...
Anna Glasier
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Hormonal postcoital contraception
European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care, 1997Wide availability of hormonal postcoital contraception (HPC) is likely to reduce the incidence of unplanned pregnancies. The two most common indications for HPC are unprotected intercourse and 'condom accidents'. The combined estrogen/progestogen HPC described by Yuzpe is the most widely used method.
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Postcoital emergency contraception
Therapeutische Umschau, 2001Die heute aktuellen Methoden der postkoitalen Notfall-Kontrazeption werden beschrieben und untereinander verglichen. Die Methode der ersten Wahl ist die einzig Gestagen enthaltende Pille, da sie der kombinierten Östrogen/Gestagen-Pille (Yuzpe-Methode) in ihrer Wirksamkeit überlegen und mit deutlich weniger Nebenwirkungen behaftet ist.
C, Spycher, G, Bigler
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Levonorgestrel as a postcoital contraceptive
Contraception, 1995Time-release pellets of levonorgestrel (LNG), the progestogenic hormone contained in the contraceptive system Norplant, were implanted subdermally in mice, after the animals had mated and ovulated but before uterine implantation of embryos would have occurred, to examine whether the hormone could reduce the number of embryos that subsequently implanted
B, Shirley, J C, Bundren, S, McKinney
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Emergency Postcoital Contraception
Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 1998Of the estimated 3.5 million unintended pregnancies that occur each year in the United States, some 1.7 million are thought to be the result of contraceptive failure. The extremely high numbers of unintended pregnancies not only in the United States but also worldwide indicates that emergency contraception remains an important but underused method of ...
V M, Chiou +3 more
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Postcoital contraception in Turkey
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2003AbstractObjectives: The purpose of this article is to determine the knowledge status of women concerning postcoital contraception when they turn to curettage in order to terminate an undesired pregnancy. Methods: This defining study has been carried out at a maternity hospital in Izmir on pregnant women admitted for curettage.
Sogukpinar, N +2 more
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International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 1979
The evolution of postcoital contraception has led to the development of emergency measures to be used following a single unprotected act of intercourse and to ongoing methods, such as the administration of a contraceptive steroid agent following every coital exposure.
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The evolution of postcoital contraception has led to the development of emergency measures to be used following a single unprotected act of intercourse and to ongoing methods, such as the administration of a contraceptive steroid agent following every coital exposure.
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Postcoital Contraception With Diethylstilbestrol
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1971One thousand women of child bearing age were given, within 72 hours of sexual exposure, 25 mg of diethylstilbestrol twice daily for five days. No pregnancies resulted and there were no serious adverse reactions. It was emphasized to the patient that this was an emergency type of treatment and, should she have a continuing need for contraception, other ...
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