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Post-"pill" amenorrhoea--cause or coincidence?
The relationship of contraceptive history to diagnostic category of amenorrhoea was analysed in 131 consecutively investigated cases of secondary amenorrhoea. Amenorrhoea occurred in 52 patients immediately after discontinuing the oral contraceptive. Twenty-two had had amenorrhoea before oral contraceptive treatment and 23 patients before the episode of non-contraceptive-related amenorrhoea inv...
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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...
متن کاملThe induction of amenorrhoea.
A survey has shown that many women favour eliminating menstruation and it has been suggested that therapeutic induction of amenorrhoea might be an advantage in female personnel mobilised for war. The traditional method has been to take the oral contraceptive pill continuously. This produces weight gain and other side-effects; spotting and breakthrough bleeding can be a problem initially. The me...
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The study of a post-coital contraceptive pill containing 0.75 mg levonorgestrel was undertaken at National Research Institute of Fertility Control (NRIFC) to assess its efficacy, side effects and acceptability. Ninety five women were studied for 340 months of use. Average age and parity of acceptors was 29.4 and 3.8 respectively. Menstrual cycle irregularity was the most prominent sideeffect re...
متن کاملPrimary and secondary amenorrhoea.
Amenorrhoea, which is usually defined as no periods for six months or more, occurs in 10-20% of patients complaining of infertility and is one of the commonest reasons for referral to a gynaecological endocrine clinic. It usually implies an endocrine abnormality of ovarian function. In many women a preliminary diagnosis may be made from clinical evaluation at the initial visit to the clinic, an...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.6104.45