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- Title
Women may experience sterilization failure many years after the procedure, long-term study shows.
- Authors
Hollander, D.
- Abstract
This article presents a study which states that women may experience sterilization failure many years after the procedure. Female sterilization is one of the most effective contraceptive methods available, but the risk of failure persists for many years after the procedure. Differences in the effectiveness of various methods diminishes as women's age at sterilization rises. The investigators classified each pregnancy as either a true sterilization failure, a luteal phase pregnancy, the result of tubal anastomosis which is the re-opening of a previously cut tube or obstructed tube or in vitro fertilization or a pregnancy of unknown status. The probability of failure 5-10 years after sterilization ranged from 1.2 per 1,000 procedures to 8.3 per 1000. 3% of women who were aged 18-27 when they underwent sterilization with bipolar coagulation became pregnant after 5-10 years. 8% of pregnancies classified as true failures reportedly end in abortion, which suggests that some women failed to report pregnancies that ended in abortion.
- Subjects
STERILIZATION of women; CONCEPTION; PREGNANCY; BIRTH control; MENSTRUAL cycle; ABORTION
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1996, Vol 28, Issue 5, p237
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135844