Oral Contraceptives after Liver Disease

Oral contraceptives after liver disease.

Administration of oral contraceptives to 10 women was started two weeks after the normalization of the serum enzyme activities in the convalescent period of viral hepatitis, and to five women eight weeks after an operation of obstructive jaundice. Routine liver function tests were performed at intervals of two weeks for two to three months. The liver function tests stayed within normal limits d...

Amenorrhoea after oral contraceptives

and five years after the birth of the last child routine recall should start. The fall in detection rates among women repeatedly presenting themselves for rescreening is so dramatic12 that a limit could be put on rescreening. Multiphasic screening has already been criticised,13 and the Canadians agree that it is not realistic. For example, to link cervical screening with screening for breast ca...

Oral contraceptives and liver function

SYNOPSIS Oral contraceptives can cause liver damage and jaundice but this is very rare in women in the United Kingdom. The drugs are contraindicated where there is a history of recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy and acute or chronic disturbance of liver function which can be congenital or acquired. It is not yet known whether the oestrogenic or progestogenic components of oral cont...

Oral contraceptives and thromboembolic disease.

Oral Contraceptives Use and Liver Cancer Risk

Studies about the association between oral contraceptives use and liver cancer risk have generated controversial results. Therefore, a meta-analysis of cohort and case-control studies was performed to quantitatively summarize the existing evidence.Eligible studies were identified by a computer search of PubMed and Embase databases and handed-search of reference lists, without any limitations. S...