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Query: UMLS:C0018799 (heart disease)
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Different methods of contraception used by women undergoing cardiac surgery at the Ain Shams University Hospital in Cairo are discussed. The study including 250 women who had mitral commissurotomy, 77 with valve replacement including 1 case of triple valve repair, and 3 women who had cardiac surgery for congenital heart disease. An IUD was used by 170 women (51.5%), vaginal tablets by 4 (1.2%), oral contraceptives by 7 (2.1%), "safe period" by 7 women (2.1%), and tubal ligation was performed on 10 women (3%). The husbands of 33 women (10%) used condoms, and 99 women (30%) did not use any contraception. The IUD was tolerable, and was associated with bleeding in 60 women (35.2%) and leukorrhea in 55 (32.3%). The IUD was removed from only 1 woman because of severe bleeding. 3 pregnancies occurred with condom users in 2 women who had had mitral commissurotomy and 1 who had valve replacement. There was no incidence of bacterial endocarditis in the study group.
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PMID:Contraception after heart surgery. 159 24