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Reports posted on abortion pill.(mifepristone)(Brief Article)
2002 MAY 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A 21-year-old woman had a heart attack 3 days after using the abortion pill mifepristone, but there is no way to know if the pill played a role, health officials say.
In a letter to doctors, the pill's distributor also said two women had serious infections after using the abortion pill - one of whom was a Canadian woman reported by doctors last fall to have died.
Again, there is no way to know if mifepristone had a role, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in a fact sheet posted on its Internet site April 17, 2002.
But the FDA ordered the reports released for another reason: concern that doctors were giving the abortion pill to some women with ectopic pregnancies - something they are not supposed to do. The agency has three reports of ruptured tubal pregnancies among mifepristone users, one of whom died.
Ectopic, or tubal, pregnancies are potentially life-threatening situations where a fertilized egg lodges outside the woman's uterus. Surgical treatment is required.
While the abortion pill will not have any effect on an ectopic pregnancy, the concern is that a woman with the kind of pain ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Reports posted on abortion pill.(mifepristone)(Brief Article)