scholarly journals Low dose Mifepristone (100 mg) for medical termination of pregnancy

Author(s):  
Shikha Seth ◽  
Arun Nagrath ◽  
Neeru Goel

Background: Abortion is the most common entity in the practice of obstetrics and gynaecology. Different methods and modes have been opted for until now to find an effective regimen with the least complications. We have tried the minimal dose (100 mg) of Mifepristone (PO) instead of the presently recommended 200 mg for medical abortion in early first trimester cases. Objectives: The objective of the study was to determine the efficacy of low dose (100 mg) Mifepristone for medical termination of early pregnancy with oral Misoprostol 800 μg, 24 hours later.Design: A prospective analytical study was conducted on a population of 82 early-pregnant patients who have requested medical abortions.Method: Pregnant women of less than 56 days gestation age from their last menstrual period, requesting medical abortion were selected over a period of 14 months from January 2007 to March 2008. They were given 100 mg Mifepristone orally on Day-1, followed by 800 μg Misoprostol orally 24 hours later on Day-2, keeping the patient in the ward for at least 6 hours. Abortion interval, success rate, post-abortion bleeding and side-effects were noted. Success was defined as complete uterine evacuation without the need for surgical intervention.Results: The total success rate of this minimal dose Mifepristone regimen was 96.25%. Pain and nausea were the predominant side-effects noted. In total 72 (90%) women had completely aborted within 5 hours of taking Misoprostol. Three (3.75%) women only required suction aspiration, hence termed as failed medical abortion. The abortion interval increased with the gestation age. All three failures were of the more-than-42-day gestational age group. The overall mean abortion interval was 4.68 ± 5.32 hours.Conclusion: Mifepristone 100 mg, followed 24 hours later by Misoprostol 800 μg orally, is a safe and effective regimen for medical abortion.

Author(s):  
Meetangi Agarwal ◽  
Sailatha Ramanujam ◽  
Anuradha C. Ramachandran

Background: The aim of the study was to assess and comparatively evaluate the efficacy of different methods of first trimester abortions (medical, surgical) in terms of its safety, cost and effectiveness.Methods: We present a retrospective observational research study done at Chettinad hospital and research institute, Kelambakkam Chennai which included a total of 70 patients of first trimester abortions, in the period from June 2019 to June 2020. 55 patients were offered medical treatment (MTOP) and were followed up with a repeat scan after 2 weeks. In cases of failed medical abortion patient underwent curettage. Though, in some cases after an attempt at medical abortion, if the products didn’t expel at all within 48 hours, dilatation and evacuation was offered. Transvaginal ultrasound was performed to confirm the success of the treatment. In 15 cases who presented with incomplete abortion, surgical treatment (STOP) was offered. The outcomes considered were successful complete abortions, failed medical abortions, side effects and complications including blood transfusion.Results: The baseline characteristics of women were similar in both the groups like mean age, parity, history of previous termination of pregnancy (TOP). The success rate in MTOP was 67.2% and in STOP 100%.The amount of bleeding experienced was moderate to heavy in MTOP and minimal to moderate in STOP.37 women who underwent only medical termination who returned for the 2-week follow-up, the rate of complete pregnancy termination was 94% and for the remaining 2 women surgical intervention was required. In the surgical group, at the 2-week follow up, no woman underwent a repeat vacuum aspiration with an efficacy of 100%. No significant difference was found in the mean total cost for the medical and surgical groups after adding the subsequent costs (including additional manual vacuum evacuation).Conclusions: Medical termination of abortion should be preferred over surgical termination as it is safer, cost effective, with fewer complications and high success rate. 


Author(s):  
Tamima Al-Dughaishi ◽  
Amjad Hamed Al-Haddabi ◽  
Mussab Mussab Mubarak Hamed Al-Jabri ◽  
Vaidyanathan Gowri

Background: Medical termination of missed miscarriage and incomplete miscarriage with misoprostol, are an alternative to surgical evacuation (dilatation and curettage). This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of misoprostol in highly parous woman for incomplete and missed miscarriage.Methods: This was a retrospective study was conducted in two different time lines (2010 and 2014). All patients admitted to the Sultan Qaboos University hospital, Muscat, Oman, for the management of first-trimester miscarriages (missed and incomplete types) during the study period were included. Some women were moved to dilation and curettage even after misoprostol. The effect of gravidity and parity on those women in whom misoprostol was not effective was studied.Results: The overall success rate of misoprostol for the management was 62.14% in 2010 and 53.8% 2014. In nulliparous woman the success rate of misoprostol was slightly higher than parous women. There was no apparent effect of gravidity and parity of ≥ 5 or ≥ 5 on the success of misoprostol.Conclusions: Misoprostol reduced the rate of surgical evacuation among the study subjects. In highly parous and multigravid women (≥ para 5 and gravida ≥5) the success was not significantly different compared to less parous women.


2017 ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
S. V. Apresyan ◽  
V. I. Dimitrova ◽  
O. A. Slyusareva

The article describes the specific features of termination of progressive uterine pregnancy in the II trimester. It was found that the efficacy of medical abortion in the II trimester of pregnancy is 94–98%. High efficacy, low incidence of side effects or early and late complications and economic feasibility demonstrate that the method is promising and safe; therefore, it can be recommended as a priority when choosing a method for medical termination of pregnancy in the II trimester.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chisato Masuda ◽  
Elisa Oreglia ◽  
Ly Sokhey ◽  
Megan McLaren ◽  
Caroline Free ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Women working in Cambodian garment factories have unmet needs for family planning (contraception and safe abortion) services, because of their background and living conditions. This study describes their experiences regarding abortion and contraception as part of a larger project to develop an intervention to support comprehensive post-abortion care.Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with women seeking abortion services at private health facilities. In addition, we interviewed the private providers of abortion and contraception services surrounding garment factories. Interviews lasted up to 60 minutes and were conducted in Khmer and later translated into English. A thematic analysis was undertaken, with medical abortion experiences coded according to the Cambodia comprehensive abortion care protocol.Results: We interviewed 16 women and 13 providers between August and November 2018. Most women reported being married and had at least one child. Among factory workers the major reported reasons for abortion were birth spacing and financial constraints. Family, friends, or co-workers were the major information resources regarding abortion and contraception, and their positive or negative experiences strongly influenced women’s attitude towards both. Medical abortion pills were not always provided with adequate instructions. Half of the participants had a manual vacuum aspiration procedure performed after medical abortion. While women knew the side effects of medical abortion, many did not know the adverse warning signs and the signs of abortion completion. Only three women started post abortion family planning, as most of the women expressed fear and hesitation due to concerns about side effects of modern contraception. Fear of infertility was particularly reported among young women without children. Conclusion: This research shows that in this setting not all women are receiving comprehensive abortion care and contraceptive counselling. Provision of accurate and adequate information about abortion methods and modern contraception was the dominant shortfall in abortion care. Future work to address this gap could involve the development of appropriate interventions and informative tools for women in the Cambodian garment industry such as through existing client contact-centres or social media, including creation of videos or posts on topics that come from clients questions.


1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Shrivastava ◽  
A Shrivastava

Background: Combined mifepristone and misoprostol is the best method of medical termination of pregnancy. The study is undertaken to find out the success rate, acceptability, efficacy and patient satisfaction of medical abortion in pregnant women with 49 days of gestation. Methods: The pregnant women with amenorrhea of 49 days or less seeking termination of pregnancy received were studied. The 200 mg of oral mifepristone and followed 48 hours later with 600 microgram of oral misoprostol were given. Results: The success rate with the regime was 47 (94%) and 49 (98%) were satisfied. Weakness 24 (48%), Nausea 10 (20%), diarrhea 12 (25%), needing analgesic 4 (8%) were the side effects of the combined regime. Conclusions: Medical termination of pregnancy with combination of mifepristone and oral misoprostol has a good success rate. The side effect of the regimen in our setup is less and well accepted. Majority of the patient are satisfied with medical termination of pregnancy. Key words: medical abortion; misoprostol; mifepristone DOI: 10.3126/jnhrc.v7i2.3021 Journal of Nepal Health Research Council Vol.7(2) Apr 2009 127-130


1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veena Shrivastava

Unsafe abortion is a major health issue. Therefore safe abortion services which is effective. acceptable and techniquely easy to perform should be available. Aim- To confirm effectiveness, side effects, safety and patient satisfaction with medical termination of early pregnancy. Methods- It was a prospective study 150 women who were less than 63 days pregnant and consented for medical termination of pregnancy were given! 200mg 0 Mefepristone orally and 48 hrs later 800 micro gram Misoprostol was inserted vaginally. They were followed up in 14 days. Bleeding, pain G.I symptoms any other side effects were recorded. Abortion was complete or not was confirmed clinically and by USG. Failure and success was documented depending upon need for surgical evacuation. Results- The success rate with this regime was 92.6% and failure rate was 7.3%. There were no major side effects with Mifepristone. The average bleeding after misoprostol insertion was 10 days and 80% women had more bleeding than normal period. All of them had pain. Only 13.3% needed analgesic. women (96%) were satisfied with the method. Conclusion- combination of mifepristone and misoprostol is a safe and effective of early pregnancy Keywords- medical termination, pregnancy, mifepristone, misoprostol.   doi:10.3126/njog.v2i2.1456 N. J. Obstet. Gynaecol 2007 Nov-Dec; 2 (2): 54 - 58


Author(s):  
Anitha K. Gopal ◽  
Sajini B. Sajini B. ◽  
Ganamurali S. ◽  
Beena Kumari R.

Background: Medical abortion is a means of medical termination of pregnancy by drugs alone. This can be done upto 63 days using mifepristone and misoprostol tablets. For the conventional method, patient has to come to the hospital 3 times. In our study we reduced the interval between the drugs there by reducing the number of hospital visits. The objectives were to study the reduction of induction abortion interval following administration of evidence based regimen and to compare the proportion of patients developing complications in both the groups.Methods: It was a comparative study conducted at Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Govermnent MedicalCollege Kottayam, Kerala, India from May 2015 to November 2015.Results: The mean induction abortion interval in experimental group was 14.3 hours and in control group, it was 60.4 hours which was found to be statistically significant. Only 3 patients (7%) of experimental group had side effects whereas 12 patients. (17.4%) had side effects in the control group. Major side effects encountered were severe abdominal pain and severe bleeding per vaginum. Evidence based  regimen consist of administration of mifepristone 200mg and vaginal misoprostol 600µg 6 hours later for termination of pregnancy up to 63 days could reduce the induction abortion interval by 46 hours and had less side effects.Conclusions: As it reduces the induction abortion Interval and complications we feel that the evidence based regimen for Medical Termination of Pregnancy is superior to the FDA approved regimen.


Author(s):  
N.V. Grigor'eva

One of the major challenges in modern gynecology is the problem of non-developing pregnancy. In particular, it is not still clear whether patients should be administered certain hormonal drugs and when such drugs should be taken. The purpose of the study was to assess endometrium and hemostatic system in women taking hormonal drugs after pharmacological termination of a non-developing pregnancy. Materials and Methods. The authors examined 60 women who underwent medical termination of a non-developing pregnancy. During the post-abortion period, one group of women took a hormonal drug containing 30 μg of ethinylestradiol and 0.15 mg of desogestrel, and another group took a hormonal drug containing 20 mg of dydrogesterone. The authors evaluated hemostasis indicators and data of a sonographic endometrium study and compared the results obtained with parameters observed in women who did not take any hormonal drugs. Results. Improvement of hemostatic system parameters was observed without hormonal rehabilitation in the post-abortion period. Nonetheless, in 75% of cases there was a discrepancy between ultrasound indicants and a phase of the menstrual cycle. Moreover, focal and diffuse endometrial hyperplasia was formed in 58 % of cases. Menstrual cycle normalization and lack of excessive endometrium proliferation were observed under hormonal therapy. However, at the same time agitation of the hemostatic system was noted. Thus, platelet aggregation time reduced by 20.2 % (from 17.3±3.1 to 13.8±1.8 s, p≤0.05), platelet aggregation increased by 54.8 %, ART decreased by 19.7 %, and SFMC concentration was 2 times higher in women taking combined oral contraceptives. Hemostatic changes were less evident in women taking dydrogesterone. Platelet aggregation time reduced by 9.2 %, platelet aggregation increased by 20 %, the SFMC increased by 10.7 % (from 2.8±0.8 to 3.1±1.2 g/l). At the same time most indicators were within the norm. Conclusion. The data obtained indicate the need for further research in the area in order to find possible ways to correct the detected changes and prevent possible complications. Keywords: non-developing pregnancy, medical abortion, hormonal therapy, hemostasis. В современной гинекологии одной из ключевых является проблема неразвивающейся беременности. В частности, не до конца решен вопрос о необходимости приема конкретных средств гормональной реабилитации и времени их назначения. Цель исследования – оценка состояния эндометрия и системы гемостаза при приеме гормональных средств после фармакологического прерывания неразвивающейся беременности. Материалы и методы. Обследовано 60 женщин, перенесших медикаментозное прерывание неразвивающейся беременности. В постабортном периоде часть женщин принимала гормональный препарат, содержащий 30 мкг этинилэстрадиола и 0,15 мг дезогестрела, другая часть – 20 мг дидрогестерона. Оценку показателей гемостаза и данных сонографического исследования состояния эндометрия проводили в сравнении с группой женщин, не принимавших гормональные препараты. Результаты. При отсутствии гормональной реабилитации в постабортном периоде отмечалась нормализация показателей системы гемостаза, при этом в 75 % случаев обнаруживалось несоответствие УЗ-признаков должной фазе менструального цикла, в 58 % формировалась очаговая и разлитая гиперплазия эндометрия. При приеме гормональных препаратов отмечалась нормализация цикла, отсутствие избыточной пролиферации эндометрия, но наряду с этим происходила активация системы гемостаза. Так, в группе, принимающей комбинированный оральный контрацептив, на 20,2 % (с 17,3±3,1 до 13,8±1,8 с, р≤0,05) сокращалось время агрегации тромбоцитов, на 54,8 % увеличивалась степень агрегации тромбоцитов, на 19,7 % сокращалось АВР и в 2 раза повышалась концентрация РФМК. При приеме дидрогестерона гемостатические изменения отмечались в значительно меньшей степени. Время агрегации сокращалось на 9,2 %, степень агрегации повышалась на 20 %, прирост РФМК составил 10,7 % (с 2,8±0,8 до 3,1±1,2 г/л), при этом большинство показателей не выходило за рамки нормативного значения. Выводы. Полученные данные свидетельствуют о необходимости дальнейших исследований в данной области с целью поиска возможных способов коррекции обнаруженных изменений и предотвращения осложнений. Ключевые слова: неразвивающаяся беременность, медикаментозный аборт, гормональная реабилитация, гемостаз.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tariku Shimels ◽  
Mebratu Abraha ◽  
Mensur Shafie ◽  
Lemi Belay ◽  
Melsew Getnet

Abstract Background Original clinical trials have demonstrated that the combined mifepristone plus misoprostol has a marked effectiveness on first trimester abortion practices compared to the misoprostol alone regimen. However, there is no clear evidence if this effect holds consistent direction for all main outcomes and, whether subsequent complications or side effects are minimal or not. This review is intended to provide aggregated evidence for this question through comparison of the respective regimens based on findings from previous randomized control trial studies. Methods Randomized control trials which compared mifepristone plus misoprostol with misoprostol alone for first trimester medical abortion and published in English language will be included in the review. Articles attempted to evaluate procedures and mechanisms of first trimester abortion other than mifepristone plus misoprostol combined regimen with misoprostol alone will be excluded. An internet based search of different engines will be undertaken to identify articles on the proposed topic. Using text words contained in the titles and abstracts of relevant articles, a full search of PubMed/Medline, Cochrane CENTRAL, EMBASE, WHO international clinical Trial registry platform and google scholar will be made. Data on participants, study methods, interventions, and outcomes will be abstracted. Included studies will be pooled for meta-analysis. Results will be reported in odds or risk ratio at 95% confidence interval. Discussion This systematic review intends to review the available literature on effectiveness of mifepristone plus misoprostol as compared to misoprostol alone for inducing abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. In addition, we anticipate that the review will evaluate and compare the incidence of potential complications and side effects following administration of the respective regimen in both populations. Systematic review registration number CRD42019134213


2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepak Shrestha ◽  
Shreyashi Aryal ◽  
Binita Sharma

Background: With the legalization of medical abortion in Nepal, mifepristone-misoprostol combination via different routes has been widely used for early abortion. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy and acceptability of 200 milligrams mifepristone orally followed by 800 micrograms sublingual misoprostol in outpatient setting.Methods: It was an open-label prospective study conducted in outpatient department of a tertiary hospital over a period of 13 months. Clients upto nine weeks of pregnancy were enrolled. 200 milligrams of mifepristone orally followed by 800 micrograms of misoprostol sublingually 36 to 48 hours later were prescribed. They were followed up in 14 days sonologically or verbally through telephone. Side effects and satisfaction to the regimen were assessed through acceptability questionnaire. Mann-Whitney U test was used for analyzing categorical data.Results: A total of 47 clients were enrolled. The mean age and gestational age were 29.38 years (SD+5.914) and 6.2 weeks (SD+1.28) respectively. The commonest indications for termination were completed family and unwanted pregnancy (40.4% each). The average duration of bleeding was 5.76 days (SD +3.61). Abdominal cramping was the most common side effect (95.7%). The least acceptable parameter was the bleeding time (80.9%). For 97.9% clients, the adverse effects were acceptable. The overall success rate of the regimen was 87.2%.Conclusions: With a comparable success rate to vaginal use, home based sublingual use of misoprostol in low resource settings offers an acceptable and cost effective alternative for medical abortion upto nine weeks of pregnancy. Lesser gestational age is a useful predictor for successful abortion.


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