Clinical Pharmacology of Hormonal Emergency Contraceptive Pills

Emergency contraceptives play a major role in preventing unwanted pregnancy. The use of emergency contraceptives is characterized by myths and lack of knowledge by both health professionals and users. The main objective of this paper is to summarize the clinical pharmacology of hormonal methods of e...

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Autores principales: Matyanga, Celia M. J., Dzingirai, Blessing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6193352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30402457
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2785839
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description Emergency contraceptives play a major role in preventing unwanted pregnancy. The use of emergency contraceptives is characterized by myths and lack of knowledge by both health professionals and users. The main objective of this paper is to summarize the clinical pharmacology of hormonal methods of emergency contraception. A literature review was done to describe in detail the mechanism of action, efficacy, pharmacokinetics, safety profile, and drug interactions of hormonal emergency contraceptive pills. This information is useful to healthcare professionals and users to fully understand how hormonal emergency contraceptive methods work.
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spelling pubmed-61933522018-11-06 Clinical Pharmacology of Hormonal Emergency Contraceptive Pills Matyanga, Celia M. J. Dzingirai, Blessing Int J Reprod Med Review Article Emergency contraceptives play a major role in preventing unwanted pregnancy. The use of emergency contraceptives is characterized by myths and lack of knowledge by both health professionals and users. The main objective of this paper is to summarize the clinical pharmacology of hormonal methods of emergency contraception. A literature review was done to describe in detail the mechanism of action, efficacy, pharmacokinetics, safety profile, and drug interactions of hormonal emergency contraceptive pills. This information is useful to healthcare professionals and users to fully understand how hormonal emergency contraceptive methods work. Hindawi 2018-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6193352/ /pubmed/30402457 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2785839 Text en Copyright © 2018 Celia M. J. Matyanga and Blessing Dzingirai. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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