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Pregnancy rates were similar for both cohorts ... Current recommendations state that patients who have used Essure successfully without complications should not seek to have it explanted.

the researchers would have given 1,000 women Essure and another 1,000 women laparoscopic sterilization and followed them for five years to compare rates of pregnancy, complications, hysterectomy ...

“Although there is evidence of complications ... the initial placement success at a rate of 84 percent to 98 percent, according to a 2011 review of Essure by Mayo Clinic researchers.

Karmin says Essure is 99.8 percent effective at preventing pregnancy, has been implanted in hundreds of thousands of women and has a minimal complication rate. “I haven’t had a single patient ...

says an independent report reveals 303 fetal deaths caused by Essure ... does not report high rates of premature membrane rupture, preterm labor or delivery, or serious complications.

An implant used by the NHS to sterilise women poses a serious safety concern, according to a new US study in the BMJ. Women who had Essure fitted had a 10-times greater risk of needing a repeat ...