Failure of the emergency contraceptive levonorgestrel and the risk of adverse effects in pregnancy and on fetal development: An observational cohort study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 296-299

  De Santis, Marco ^a   Cavaliere, Anna Franca ^a   Straface, Gianluca ^a   Carducci, Brigida ^a   Caruso, Alessandro ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fetal malformation; Hormonal emergency contraceptive; Levonorgestrel; Teratology

Indexed keywords

ETHINYLESTRADIOL PLUS LEVONORGESTREL; LEVONORGESTREL; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS RISK; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; LACRIMAL DUCT OCCLUSION; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN PERIOD; OBSERVATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TELEPHONE; TERATOLOGY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, SYNTHETIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEVONORGESTREL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 23744471266     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.01.136     Document Type: Article

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