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Contraception (birth control)
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order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
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| Accelerated intracranial occlusive disease, oral contraceptives, and |
| Levine SR; Fagan SC; Pessin MS; Silbergleit R; Floberg J; Selwa JF; Vogel |
| NEUROLOGY. 1991 Dec;41(12):1893-901. |
| 5 cases of ischemic strokes in young women who used oral contraceptives and smoked cigarettes are described in |
| clinical and angiographic detail, the risk factors for moyamoya disease are discussed in a review or strokes in pill |
| users, and the notion that oral contraceptive and smoking may cause a moyamoya pattern of stroke is proposed. The |
| women were aged 20-32, used the pill from 2 weeks-8 years, had smoked approximately 10-20 pack-years. 2 women |
| had headaches and 4 had transient ischemic attacks before their multifocal symptoms in visual, somatosensory and |
| motor function, language, speech and cognition. 2 had seizures. Angiographic patterns of either supraclinoid |
| stenosis (4) or proximal carotid artery stenosis (1) with the collateral circulation characteristic of moyamoya disease |
| were evident in all, but there was no evidence of hemorrhagic infarction. There were no signs of atherosclerosis. |
| Subtle signs of an immunologic process included antinuclear antibody titer of 1:160 in 1 woman, elevated |
| sedimentation rate and elevated circulating immune complexes in another patient, and elevated cerebrospinal |
| protein and IgG in a third woman. 4 of the patients remained stable after stopping oral contraceptives and stopping |
| or reducing smoking. The 5th, who continued smoking, had progressive symptoms for 10 years. It was suggested |
| that antibodies to ethinyl estradiol, a possible cause of this disorder, be further investigated. (PubHealth.info |
| Document ID: CONT3T 2082-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Accelerated intracranial occlusive disease, oral |
| contraceptives, and cigarette use.", is(are) Levine SR; Fagan SC; Pessin MS; Silbergleit R; Floberg J; Selwa JF; |
| Vogel CM; Welch KM. The source of this article is "NEUROLOGY. 1991 Dec;41(12):1893-901.". This article was |
| published in 1991 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 2082-06. All rights reserved with |
| PubHealth.info) PIN: 12082 |
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