Research in Family Planning : Themes from the XIth World Congress on Fertility and Sterility, Dublin, June 1983, held under the Auspices of the International Federation of Fertility Societies

This volume contains the papers on family planning research which were presented at the XIth World Congress on Fertility and Sterility held in Dublin, Ireland in June, 1983 under the auspices of the International Federation of Fertility Societies. These papers were presented during the related communi­ cations sessions of the Congress and have been brought together into a special volume which will be of major interest to those concerned with family planning. Section 1, deals with the area of natural family planning, determination of the fertile period and effects of lactation. Steroid contraception, vaginal and intrauterine contraception, abortion and sterilization are included in Sections 2-4. Social aspects of fertility control are covered in Section 5 and the final section contains studies of the effects of gossypol as a male contraceptive. This volume brings together important new knowledge in the area of family planning, clarifies some of the problems and should stimulate research on the many unresolved issues in this vitally important area. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The reliability of women’s subjective assessment of the fertile period relative to urinary gonadotrophins and follicular ultrasonic measurements during the menstrual cycle....Pages 3-11 Natural family planning and hormonal assays in Japan....Pages 13-15 Billings natural FP method: correlation of subjective signs with ovulation and cervical mucus quality....Pages 17-20 Clinical evaluation of endocrine profile by BBT records in dysovulatory infertility....Pages 21-31 Fast procedures for serum LH with commercial reagents....Pages 33-37 The optimization of an immunochemical test to locate the fertile period in women....Pages 39-44 The dual analyte assay for the detection of the fertile period in women....Pages 45-52 The relationship between the ratio of E1-3-G/Pd-3-G and the fertile period....Pages 53-54 Prolactin, gonadotrophins and oestrogen levels in lactating puerperae and in non-lactating puerperae treated with metergoline or bromocriptine....Pages 55-60 PGE2 versus methyl-ergometrin in the puerperium. Influence in uterine involution and on lactation patterns....Pages 61-63 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 Comparative randomized double-blind study of high dosage ethinyloestradiol vs. ethinyloestradiol-norgestrel combination in postcoital hormonal contraception....Pages 67-72 The contraceptive effect of the pill is not mediated by the quality of the peritoneal fluid....Pages 73-75 Carbohydrate metabolism alterations under monophasic, sequential and triphasic oral contraceptives containing ethinyloestradiol plus levonorgestrel or desogestrel....Pages 77-80 Impact of oral contraceptives upon serum lipoprotein pattern in healthy women....Pages 81-86 Androgenic action of progestins used in oral contraceptives....Pages 87-90 Triquilar: a low-dose triphasic oral contraceptive....Pages 91-96 Possible protection from breast cancer with long-term oral contraceptive use....Pages 97-99 The effects of active immunization of marmoset monkeys against the beta subunit of ovine luteinizing hormone (oLH Beta)....Pages 101-107 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 Clinical and experimental evaluation of a new vaginal contraceptive....Pages 111-114 Benzalkonium chloride — a new vaginal contraceptive....Pages 115-118 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 Contraception at caesarean delivery....Pages 119-124 The combined Multiload Copper 250-Short IUD in women with reduced uterine cavity measurements....Pages 125-128 Observations on the ML Cu 375....Pages 129-138 Copper medicated IUDs are not associated with abortion....Pages 139-141 Early chorionic activity in IUD bearing women. Preliminary report....Pages 143-145 Cytological findings in women with different methods of fertility regulation including spermatozoal recovery rates....Pages 147-151 A bacteriological study of the endometrial cavity, after up to seven years use of butterfly IUD....Pages 153-161 The IUD: a decade review....Pages 163-168 Front Matter....Pages 169-169 Study on the effect of LH-RH analog in the termination of pregnancy....Pages 171-176 Prophylactic metronidazole in first-trimester induced abortion. A clinical, controlled trial in high-risk women....Pages 177-178 Coagulation methods for tubal sterilization — proved in animal model....Pages 179-182 Pregnancy rates after laparoscopic tubal sterilization by means of mechanical and coagulating techniques....Pages 183-187 Acceptability of laparoscopic tubal ligation by Fallope ring when available among other family planning methods in rural Egypt....Pages 189-191 Men’s attitude in Israel towards sterilization by vasectomy....Pages 193-195 Front Matter....Pages 197-197 Reproductive characteristics of Libyan women....Pages 199-216 Fertility regulation clinic in Libyan Arab Jamahiriya at Benghazi....Pages 217-226 A family planning survey in Ireland....Pages 227-231 Front Matter....Pages 233-233 Direct effect of gossypol on the metabolism of rat Leydig cells....Pages 235-239 Gossypol as a male oral contraceptive: trial case report....Pages 241-243 Back Matter....Pages 245-249