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A 16-month evaluation study of the Lippes loop D is presented. The data is based on 236 insertions done in a partially subsidized private clinic in Cebu City. The data was processed, analyzed, and computerized by the Pathfinder International IUD Evaluation Program, using the Tietze Life Table approach. Based on 1013.5 women month of use and on a 94.8% follow-up Loop D wearers who had been followed up for one year, had an expulsion rate of 11.1%. The removal for bleeding and/or pain was 2.8% and the incidence of pregnancy with the device in situ was 1.2%. The actual total continuation rate was 84% at the end of one year. The study is being continued with a larger series and a longer follow-up data. Because of the favorable acceptance and technical efficiency of the Lippes Loop D in preventing pregnancy among the low socio-economic group served in a private clinic set-up, it is hoped that the intrauterine device can be adopted more widely and actively in this country, among women in need of contraception regardless of their socio-economic and educational level. (Author)
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A 30-minutes infusion of "tungog" in normal saline was injected intraperitoneally to 59 white Sprague rats. Marked clinical and anatomic changes developed in animals which received 10 to 20 serial injections of 0.5 cc of the infusion 1 to 2 times a week plus a single additional dose of 0.75 cc per 100-gram body weight. The liver and spleen were contracted and deformed in more than 50% of the subjects. The hepatic cells showed varying degrees of hyaline and feathery degeneration which sometimes proceeded to necrosis. Concomitantly, there was secondary regenerating hyperplasia often to a marked degree. The changes in the spleen were described. (Author)