OBJECTIVE To conduct an analysis of intrauterine device (IUD)-related outcomes including expulsion, contraceptive failure, and early discontinuation and to compare these outcomes in regard to age, parity, and IUD type. METHODS This was a multicenter retrospective chart review of adolescents and women aged 13-35 years who had an IUD inserted for contraception between June 2008 and June 2011. ...

BACKGROUND Long-acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) are highly effective in preventing pregnancy, cost effective, and increasing in popularity. It is unclear whether changes in IUD use are associated with changes in rates of irreversible tubal sterilization. In this analysis, we evaluate changes in rates of tubal sterilization, insertion of copper or levonorgest...

Background: Long-acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) are highly effective in preventing pregnancy, cost effective, and increasing in popularity. It is unclear whether changes in IUD use are associated with changes in rates of irreversible tubal sterilization. In this analysis, we evaluate changes in rates of tubal sterilization, insertion of copper or levonorges...

Globally, endometrial cancer is the sixth leading cause of female cancer-related deaths. Non-atypical endometrial hyperplasia (EH), has a lifetime progression rate to endometrial cancer ranging from less than 5%, if simple without atypia, to 40%, if complex with atypia. Site specific, long-acting intrauterine devices (IUDs) provide fertility sparing, progestin-based EH medical management. It is...

It can be argued that the most important failing of modern family planning is the persistent epidemic of unintended pregnancy. In developing countries, about 75 million pregnancies annually are unintended, a number close to the 80 million growth of world population each year [1]. In the United States, about half of pregnancies are unintended [2]. By the age of 45 years, about half of women in t...

Concerns exist as to whether the insertion of copper and levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine devices (IUDs) increases the risk of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) among women with sexually transmitted infection (STI). We searched the MEDLINE database for all articles published between January 1966 and March 2005 that included evidence relevant to IUDs and STIs and PID. None of the studies th...

The use of intrauterine devices (IUDs), including the copper-bearing device and levonorgestrel system (LNG-IUS), is safe among nulligravidas adolescent girls. However, several misconceptions limit their in clinical practice; health-care providers are hesitant to prescribe IUDs, myths associated with usage adolescents exist both women themselves. high rates unplanned pregnancies (which many sett...

Abstract Introduction Our objectives were to compare the 1‐year follow‐up clinical performance of TCu380A intrauterine device (TCu380A‐IUD) and levonorgestrel (LNG) 52‐mg system (IUS) inserted at post‐placental period. Material methods We conducted an open‐label, parallel‐group, randomized trial, 1:1 with pregnant women admitted for childbirth independently mode birth. primary outcome was expul...