Complications of abortion performed under local anesthesia.

Objective: To assess the incidence of complications of abortion performed under local anesthesia.

Design: Prospective study.

Setting: A family planning center in the Paris area.

A comparative analysis of fall in haemoglobin following abortions conducted by mifepristone (600 mg) and vacuum aspiration.

We compared post-abortion metrorrhagia in 185 women who used the mifepristone (600 mg) plus sulprostone (250 micrograms) drug combination and in 196 women who underwent vacuum aspiration. The patients were monitored for a 2 week period, with haemoglobin being measured on the day of the abortion and 2 weeks later. The women who had used the drug combination experienced a mean fall of 0.

Analysis of 369 abortions conducted by mifepristone (RU486) associated with sulprostone in a French family planning center.

Objective: To investigate the use of oral mifepristone (RU486; Roussel-Uclaf, Paris, France) associated with IM injection of sulprostone (Schering, Lys-Lez-Lannoy, France) for the induction of legal abortion (7 weeks of amenorrhea in France).

Design: An uncontrolled observational study.

Setting: A public family planning center in Paris.