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Emergency contraceptive pills

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Emergency contraceptive pills; ECPs
Medication containing synthetic hormones for preventing pregnancy after unprotected vaginal intercourse.


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Delbanco SF, Mauldon J and Smith MD, Little knowledge and limited practice: emergency contraceptive pills, the public, and the obstetrician-gynecologist, Obstetrics & Gynecology, 1997, 89(6): 1006-101l.
12) Furthermore, treatment with emergency contraceptive pills containing only levonorgestrel during the peri-ovulatory phase may fail to inhibit ovulation but, nevertheless, reduces the length of the luteal phase and the total luteal phase LH concentrations.
Widespread use of emergency contraceptive pills as a last chance--after no method was used, or a condom broke or slipped off the penis, or several oral contraceptive pills were missed--could also help to reduce unintended pregnancy.
 
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