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Common questions on emergency and postcoital contraception
Practice Nursing, 2020There are a number of key questions that must be asked when considering the method of emergency or postcoital contraception to use. Alison J Vaughan examines these when choosing from the three treatments available in the UK Copper IUD (CU-IUD ...
A. Vaughan
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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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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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Emergency contraception - A review.
European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, 2023Emergency contraception (EC), or postcoital contraception, is a therapy aimed at preventing unintended pregnancy after an act of unprotected or under-protected sexual intercourse.
Patrtyk Rudziński +9 more
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Mifepristone: a potential postcoital contraceptive
Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 2001Mifepristone is an orally-active progesterone receptor antagonist. When a single dose of mifepristone is given in the mid- or late follicular phase, it may diminish or inhibit the luteinising hormone (LH) surge. In the early luteal phase, a single dose of mifepristone induces significant changes in the endometrium without affecting the hormonal levels ...
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Reproductive Medicine Review, 1993
As early as 1500 BC, history records women using a variety of drugs, devices and manoeuvres in an attempt to prevent pregnancy after intercourse has taken place. It was not until the 1960s however that scientific efforts were made to develop effective postcoital contraception (PCC).
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As early as 1500 BC, history records women using a variety of drugs, devices and manoeuvres in an attempt to prevent pregnancy after intercourse has taken place. It was not until the 1960s however that scientific efforts were made to develop effective postcoital contraception (PCC).
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