Experience with Norplant at a Nigerian teaching hospital.

Objectives: To determine the acceptance of Norplant implants while it was in use and share our experience with other Norplant providers.

Design: Retrospective descriptive study.

Setting: The family planning clinic of the Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria.

Safety, efficacy and acceptability of implanon a single rod implantable contraceptive (etonogestrel) in University of Benin Teaching Hospital.

Objective: The study evaluated the safety, efficacy and acceptability of Implanon (etonogestrel) subdermal implant contraceptive amongst its acceptors.

Study Design: This was part of an on going prospective longitudinal study that involved 32 women out of 46 sexually active healthy informed volunteers recruited from our family planning clinic between February and March 2007. All the subjects received the single rod subdermal implant Implanon which contains 68 mg etonogestrel.

Haemostatic function in Norplant (levonorgestrel) users: a 3-year prospective experience in Benin-City, Nigeria.

Objective: To evaluate the haemostatic function and menstrual pattern of Norplant acceptors after 36 months of use.

Method: This was a prospective longitudinal study that involved fifty five healthy, non-breastfeeding, sexually active informed volunteers recruited from our family planning clinic, between September and December 2002. Blood samples were collected at pre-insertion, 12, 24 and 36 months follow up for packed cell volume, platelet count, prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time.

Intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD): acceptability and effectiveness in a tertiary institution.

This was a retrospective study of 2648 clients who accepted intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUCDs) at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital between January 1990 and December 1996 and were analyzed for socio-demographic characteristics, side-effects, complications , reasons for discontinuation in relation to duration of use, age and parity. There were 6178 acceptors of family planning methods giving an IUCD's acceptance rate of 42.9%.

Evaluation of cardiovascular morbidity in Nigerian women after 3 years of Norplant contraception.

This study was conducted to determine any cardiovascular morbidity with Norplant use by electrocardiography. Thirty Nigerian women seeking long-term reversible contraception were recruited. The clients had baseline blood pressure checks and electrocardiography (ECG) tracings.