Stronger safety advice for IUCDs
20th January 2016
THE TGA has strengthened the safety advice for several IUCDs, including the popular Mirena implant, in the wake of a large European study which found an increased risk of uterine perforation in new mothers.
The eight-year European Active Surveillance Study compared rates of adverse events in more than 60,000 women who used either levonorgestrel-releasing (LNG) implants or copper intrauterine devices.
While the background rate of perforation was low (0.14% for LNG implants and 0