Intrauterine contraception in adolescent women: The Gynefix intrauterine implant

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 816, Issue , 1997, Pages 440-450

  Wildemeersch, Dirk ^a,b   Van Kets, Henri ^a   Vrijens, Marc ^a   Delbarge, Willy ^a   Van Trappen, Yves ^a   Temmerman, Marleen ^a   Depypere, Herman ^a   Thiery, Michel ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVONORGESTREL;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE;

EID: 0030740585     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb52174.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (29)

1. 1994. Youth at risk: Meeting the Sexual Health Needs of Adolescents - Questions and Answers, Population Policy Information Kit, No. 9, April. Available from Population Action International, 1120, 19th Street, N.W., Suite 550, Washington, DC 20036.
2. GUILLEBAUD, 11995. Oral Contraceptive Compliance. What You and Your Patients Need to Know. Churchill Livingstone. London.
3. 1988. U.S. teen pregnancy. F.H.I. Network, Volume 10, No. 1, Fall.
4. POLANECZKY, M., G. SLAP, C. FORKE, A. RAPPAPORT & S. SONDHEIMER. 1994. The use of levonorgestrel implants (Norplant) for contraception in adolescent mothers. N. Engl. J. Med. 331(18): 1201-1230.
5. WILDEMEERSCH, D., H. VAN KETS, H. VAN DER PAS, M. VRIJENS, Y. VAN TRAPPEN, J. J. AMY, I. BATAR, P. BARRI, F. MARTINEZ, L. IGLESIAS-CORTIT & M. THIERY. 1994. IUD tolerance in nulligravid and parous women: Optimal acceptance with the frameless CuFix implant system. Br. J. Fam. Plann. 20: 2-5.
6. VAN KETS, H., D. WILDEMEERSCH, H. VAN DER PAS, M. VRIJENS, Y. VAN TRAPPEN, J. J. AMY, I. BATAR, P. BARRI, F. MARTINEZ, L. IGLESIAS-CORTIT, WU SHANGCHUN, CAO XIAOMING, FENG ZUAN-CHONG & M. THIERY. 1995. IUD expulsion solved with implant technology. Contraception 51: 87-92.
7. H. VAN KETS, M. VRIJENS, Y. VAN TRAPPEN, W. DELBARGE, H. VAN DER PAS, M. TEMMERMAN, I. BATAR, P. BARRI, F. MARTINEZ, L. IGLESIAS-CORTIT, D. WILDEMEERSCH, E. PIZARRO, A. ANDRADE, M. THIERY, J. WU, X. CAO, Z. C. FENG & M. H. Wu. 1995. Gyne-Fix® intrauterine copper releasing implant system: A major improvement in efficacy, expulsion and tolerance. Adv. Contracept 11: 131-142.
8. THIERY, M. 1985. Pain relief at insertion and removal of an IUD: A simplified technique for paracervical block. Adv. Contracept. 1: 167-170.
9. TIETZE, C. & S. LEWIT. 1973. Recommended procedures for the statistical evaluation of intrauterine contraception. Stud. Fam. Plann. 4: 35-46.
10. WESTROM, L. 1980. Incidence, prevalence, and trends of acute PID and its consequence to industrialized countries. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 138: 880-892.
11. STRUTHERS, B.J. 1991. Copper IUDs, PID, and fertility in nulliparous women. Adv. Contracept. 7: 211-230.
12. PARLEY, T. M., M. J. ROSENBERG, P. J. ROWE, et al. 1992. Intrauterine devices and pelvic inflammatory disease: An international perspective. Lancet 239: 785-788.
13. ATRASH, H. K., A. FRYE & C. J. R. HOGUE. 1994. Incidence of morbidity and mortality with IUD in situ in the 1980s and 1990s. A New Look at IUDs - Advancing Contraceptive Choices. IUD Conference, New York, March 1992. Butherworth-Heinemann. Boston, pp. 76-87.
14. SHEPPARD, B. L. 1987. Endometrial morphological changes in IUD users: A review. Contraception 36: 1-10.
15. PIZARRO, E. G. SCHÖENSTEDT, G. MEHECH, M. HIDALGO, C. ROMERO & G. MUNOS. 1989. Uterine cavity and the location of IUDs following administration of meclofenamic acid to menorrhagic women. Contraception 40: 413-423.
16. JAIN, A. K. 1975. Safety and effectiveness of intrauterine devices. Contraception 19: 243-248.
17. WEINER, R. et al. 1978. Copper intrauterine contraception in adolescent nullipara. Br. J. Obstet. Gynaecol. 85: 204-206.
18. HIRVONEN, E. & S. KAIVOLA. 1983. A new copper IUD (Fincoid) in adolescent and young nulliparous women. Contracept. Deliv. Syst. 4: 149-152.
19. SAURE, A., E. HIRVONEN, A. KIVIJÄRVI & H. TIMONEN. 1984. Comparative performance of Fincoid, Nova-T, and Multiload 375 IUDs. In Intrauterine Contraception: Advances and Future Prospects. G. I. Zatuchni, A. Goldsmith, J. J. Sciarra, Eds.: 104-108. Harper & Rowe. Philadelphia.
20. VAN KETS, H. 1990. Clinical Performance of Intrauterine Devices. Ph.D. dissertation, State University Gent, Faculty of Medicine, Gent, Belgium.
21. KAIVOLA, S. 1990. Postremoval assessment of the intrauterine position of the IUDs: An analysis of 1012 removals with special reference to pregnancy risk and dislocation. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Contraception, November 4-11, Singapore.
22. Wyeth-Ayerst Contraceptive Survey in Europe (WYCON). 1993. ISIS Research Ltd. London.
23. POTTER, L. S. 1991. Oral contraceptive compliance and its role in the effectiveness of the method. In Patient Compliance in Medical Practice and Clinical Trials. J. A. Cramer & B. Spilker, Eds.: 195-207. Raven Press. New York.
24. FRANK, M. L., A. N. POINDEXTER III, L. M. CORNIN, C. A. Cox & L. BATEMAN. 1993. One-year experience with subdermal contraceptive implants in the United States. Contraception 48: 229-243.
25. KUBBA, A. 1995. Emergency Contraception - Guidelines for Doctors. Faculty of the Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. London.
26. BATAR, I., D. WILDEMEERSCH, M. VRIJENS, W. DELBARGE. 1997. Immediate post-abortal insertion of the frameless intrauterine implant (IUI): International Study Group on Intrasuterine Drug Delivery. Data on file. Address: Department of Obstetrics, University Hospital Gent, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
27. UNFPA Project Report. Study of Stainless Steel Ring And Copper T IUD. Efficacy, Use, Cost/Benefit and Conversion in China. UNFPA Project CPR/91/P43: 1-53, May 21, 1992.
28. 1988. More contraceptive choices likely by the end of the century. Outlook 6: 2-8.
29. PETERSEN, K. R., L. BROOKS, B. JACOBSEN & S. O. SKOUBY. 1991. Intrauterine devices in nulliparous women. Adv. Contracept 7: 333-338.