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Previous use of oral contraceptives and spontaneous abortion.
Epidemiology
July 1994
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc., New York, NY.
This analysis tests the hypothesis that women who conceive within 3 months after stopping oral contraceptives ("the pill") have an intrinsically lower risk of chromosomally normal loss. About 30% of women show evidence of endocrine dysfunction, including anovulation, for 1-3 months after stopping the pill. In women who recover rapidly, and therefore are at risk of pregnancy, a common endocrinologic factor may account for both the quick return to normal functioning and improved intrauterine survival of the chromosomally normal conceptus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFertility after contraception or abortion.
Fertil Steril
October 1990
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Francis Scott Key Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21224.
There is a very small correlation, if any, between the prior use of OCs and congenital malformations, including Down's syndrome. There are few, if any, recent reports on masculinization of a female fetus born to a mother who took an OC containing 1 mg of a progestogen during early pregnancy. However, patients suspected of being pregnant and who are desirous of continuing that pregnancy should not continue to take OCs, nor should progestogen withdrawal pregnancy tests be used.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFData were compiled from 17 U.S. sites during a study of levonorgestrel, 0.
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