La contraccezione ormonale oggi

Franca Fruzzetti, Daria Perini, Veronica Lazzarini
In: L'Endocrinologo · 2009 · vol. 10(4) , pp. 159–166 · doi:10.1007/bf03344673 · W881433915
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Modern hormonal contraceptives offer optimal efficacy, therapeutic benefits for benign gynecological conditions, and protection against certain cancers with minimal serious side effects.

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This narrative paper reviews how hormonal contraception has evolved in active ingredients, doses, and administration regimens, highlighting the availability of preparations that provide contraceptive efficacy and can be used therapeutically for benign conditions such as acne, severe dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain, and metrorrhagia. It reports key non-contraceptive benefits, notably protection against cancers of the ovary, endometrium, and colorectal malignancy, and states that current formulations are overall associated with no major side effects, attributing this to lower-dose ethinylestradiol and progestins without androgenic activity that reduce or eliminate cardiovascular effects seen with older estrogen-progestin regimens. The paper’s limitation is that it is a review-style overview rather than new original experimental work. Relevance to endometriosis: the authors explicitly mention “dolore pelvico” among therapeutic indications of hormonal contraceptives, which is clinically relevant to endometriosis-related pelvic pain, even though endometriosis is not discussed as a specific target condition.

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