[HTML][HTML] Steroids, pregnancy and fetal development

ME Solano, PC Arck - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Maternal glucocorticoids critically rise during pregnancy reaching up to a 20-fold increase of
mid-pregnancy concentrations. Concurrently, another steroid hormone, progesterone …

Commentary: no-test medication abortion: a sample protocol for increasing access during a pandemic and beyond

EG Raymond, D Grossman, A Mark, UD Upadhyay… - Contraception, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic is acutely threatening access to essential health services,
including abortion [1]. Across all fields of medicine, changes in practice models are …

[HTML][HTML] Medication to manage abortion and miscarriage

J Beaman, C Prifti, EB Schwarz, M Sobota - Journal of General Internal …, 2020 - Springer
Abortion and miscarriage are common, affecting millions of US women each year. By age
45, one in four women in the USA will have had an abortion, and at least as many will have …

A non-inferiority study of outpatient mifepristone-misoprostol medical abortion at 64–70 days and 71–77 days of gestation

IG Dzuba, E Chong, C Hannum, ES Lichtenberg… - Contraception, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives This open-label non-inferiority study assessed efficacy of a common outpatient
medical abortion regimen among people with pregnancies 64–70 days and 71–77 days of …

Mifepristone antagonization with progesterone to prevent medical abortion: a randomized controlled trial

MD Creinin, MY Hou, L Dalton, R Steward… - Obstetrics & …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the efficacy and safety of mifepristone antagonization with high-
dose oral progesterone. METHODS: We planned to enroll 40 patients in a double-blind …

[HTML][HTML] 90 YEARS OF PROGESTERONE: Selective progesterone receptor modulators in gynaecological therapies

HOD Critchley, RR Chodankar - Journal of molecular …, 2020 - jme.bioscientifica.com
Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is a chronic, debilitating and common condition affecting
one in four women of reproductive age. Current treatments (conservative, medical and …

[HTML][HTML] Mifepristone and misoprostol for early pregnancy loss and medication abortion

H Macnaughton, M Nothnagle, J Early - American Family Physician, 2021 - aafp.org
Medication regimens using mifepristone and misoprostol are safe and effective for outpatient
treatment of early pregnancy loss for up to 84 days' gestation and for medication abortion up …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical fingerprint analysis and ultra-performance liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry-based metabolomics study of the …

Y Zhang, W Li, TT Chen, Y Yang, MY Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Medical abortion is a common method to terminate an early pregnancy and often causes
serious complications such as abnormal uterine bleeding and endometritis. Buxue Yimu …

Diagnostic criteria for retained products of conception—a scoping review

CC Hamel, S van Wessel, A Carnegy… - Acta Obstetricia et …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Numerous studies have been performed assessing optimal treatment regimens
for evacuating (retained) products of conception from the uterus, but standardized criteria for …

Efficacy and safety of medical termination of pregnancy in a regional primary care setting

SXL LAI, A Cohn - Australian and New Zealand Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Australia has demonstrated high efficacy and safety of medical termination of
pregnancy (MToP) using a mifepristone–buccal misoprostol regime. The provision of …