Options for Teens with No Options: A Self-Managed Second Trimester Abortion

BACKGROUND: Several states have deemed abortions as nonessential services, effectively calling for a halt to abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, women might elect for self-managed abortions by obtaining abortion medications online. CASE: A 15-year-old girl presented with abdomin...

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Autores principales: Duroseau, Nathalie, Loh, Miranda, Sanders, Leslie, Arden, Martha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9616640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33242593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2020.11.013
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description BACKGROUND: Several states have deemed abortions as nonessential services, effectively calling for a halt to abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, women might elect for self-managed abortions by obtaining abortion medications online. CASE: A 15-year-old girl presented with abdominal cramping and vaginal discharge after taking misoprostol obtained from an online retailer for a self-managed abortion in her second trimester during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her exam showed products of conception protruding from the vagina. The patient was emergently evaluated for an incomplete and possible septic abortion and underwent a dilation and evacuation procedure.
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spelling pubmed-96166402022-10-31 Options for Teens with No Options: A Self-Managed Second Trimester Abortion Duroseau, Nathalie Loh, Miranda Sanders, Leslie Arden, Martha J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol Case Report BACKGROUND: Several states have deemed abortions as nonessential services, effectively calling for a halt to abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, women might elect for self-managed abortions by obtaining abortion medications online. CASE: A 15-year-old girl presented with abdominal cramping and vaginal discharge after taking misoprostol obtained from an online retailer for a self-managed abortion in her second trimester during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her exam showed products of conception protruding from the vagina. The patient was emergently evaluated for an incomplete and possible septic abortion and underwent a dilation and evacuation procedure. North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-04 2020-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9616640/ /pubmed/33242593 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2020.11.013 Text en © 2021 North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Published by Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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