Abstract: Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are common sexually transmitted diseases among young women and little has been doing to study them in Chilean adolescents.
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Objectives: To evalúate the efficacy, tolerability and safety of the contraceptive Belara® (chlormadinone 2 mg/ethinylestradiol 0.03 mg; ACM/EE) in chilean women. Methods: Non interventional, multicentric, pros-pective, 6 cycles follow up trial, evaluating contraceptive efficacy, cycle stability, tolerability, safety, and effect on hair and skin. Results: AMC/EE was taken by 593 women for a total of 3426 cycles. Two pregnancies were reported during follow-up, one voluntary and the other involuntary; they were not considered failure of the method. Progressive improvement in cycle stability, intermenstrual bleeding, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea occurred during the treatment period reaching 4.5%, 1.4%, 2.5% y 11.6% at the 6th cycle respectively. The percentage of women with normal skin increased from 25.5% prior to treatment, to 63.6%, after taking ACM/EE during six months. The average body weight was maintained throughout treatment. The most frequent adverse events were: headache (10.4%), weight increase (8.3%), breast tenderness (6.1 %) and mood changes (2%). An 11 % of users (n=63) discontinued the use of ACM/EE before completing the observational period of six months. A 97.2% of physicians and 96.1% of users qualified the results with ACM/EE as "good or very good". Conclusions: Similar to the results reported in the European literature, this study in the Chilean population confirmed the efficacy, safety and tolerability of ACM/EE, together with its antiandrogenic benefits on skin and hair, and its neutral effect on body weight.
KEY WORDS: Contraception, antiandrogenic effects
Abstract: Retroareolar cysts present in female adolescents with palpable subareolar masses that can have concomitant inflammatory changes. The purpose of this study was to report our cases of retroareolar cysts and thus to contribute to a better knowledge and understanding of this entity.
