Is provision of contraception at discharge following delivery associated with postpartum visit attendance?

OBJECTIVES: We examined whether provision of contraception at discharge following delivery was associated with lower rates of postpartum visit (PPV) attendance. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of women who received pregnancy care at a Midwestern medical center in 2013. Attendance at the postpartum visit was compared for women with sterilization, contraception initiated prior to discharge (depot medroxyprogesterone acetate or etonogestrel implant), hormonal contraception prescription, or no contraception provided at postpartum discharge. Poisson regression models with robust standard errors were used to estimate the relative risk of postpartum visit attendance controlling for age, race, and parity, insurance status, and histories of both depression and drug abuse. RESULTS: Of the 1015 women who met inclusion criteria, 55% had been prescribed contraception, had initiated contraception prior to discharge, or were sterilized at the time of discharge following delivery. After adjustment for confounders, there was no association between receiving contraception and PPV attendance (relative risk for prescribed contraception = 1.09 [95% CI 0.85, 1.39], for contraception initiated prior to discharge = 0.83 [95% CI 0.67, 1.03], for sterilization = 0.86 [95% CI 0.63, 1.17] compared to no contraception). CONCLUSIONS: We found no evidence that prescribing or administering contraception post-delivery was associated with lower rates of return for postpartum follow up. IMPLICATIONS: This single site study suggests that providing effective contraception at discharge following delivery does not appear to impact PPV attendance.

Distracción osteogénica mandibular. Presentación de un caso / Osteogenic mandibular distraction. A case report

En la corrección de deficiencia del crecimiento y desarrollo mandibular, ya sea de origen congénito o pos-traumático, se han desarrollado en base a los principios de Ilizarov (1954), diversas técnicas de elongación de rama y cuerpo mandibular para disminuir al máximo las manifestaciones faciales asimétricas funcionales y estéticas en los pacientes con este tipo de alteraciones, entre las que se pueden mencionar a la microsomía hemifacial y a la escoliosis facial. Dependiendo del grado de afección se realizan elongaciones ya sea uni o bidireccionales, uni o bilaterales, por medio de distractores semirrígidos de acero inoxidable fijados quirúrgicamente y activados una vez al día, lo que equivale aproximadamente a 1 mm de elongación, con la supervisión estricta del ortodoncista para evitar la formación de mordidas abiertas. Con esta técnica se han obtenido elongaciones óseas y de tejidos blandos con resultados funcionales y estéticos que proporcionan una mejoría en la armonía facial