{"title":"Keep on Keeping on - Mirena IUD for 8 Years.","authors":"Samuel Holt McNair, Carl Tunink, Laura Morris","doi":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240037R0","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Counsel patients that their Mirena IUD retains contraceptive effectiveness for extended use up to 8 years.<sup>1</sup> The cumulative failure rate for years 6 through 8 was 0.68%, similar to reported rates for the first 5 years of use.</p>","PeriodicalId":50018,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2024.240037R0","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Counsel patients that their Mirena IUD retains contraceptive effectiveness for extended use up to 8 years.1 The cumulative failure rate for years 6 through 8 was 0.68%, similar to reported rates for the first 5 years of use.
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