Vivian Brache

Biographic Data

ID5990915
NAMEVivian Brache
GIVEN NAMESVivian
FAMILY NAMEBrache
SIGNATUREBRACHE V
AFFILIATIONSProfamilia
ORCID0000-0003-2621-4739
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX1

  • Emergency Contraception under Attack in Latin America

    Anibal Faúndes, Luis Távara et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health Matters2007

    The concept that it is possible to prevent a pregnancy after coitus is not new, but has gained prominence over the last 10-15 years. It provides a second chance to women who do not want to get pregnant and who, voluntarily or not, have had unprotected intercourse. Emergency contraception has been under strong attack by the Catholic church and anti-choice organisations in Latin America, who claim that the interference with implantation of the fert…

  • Norplant implants

    Sheldon J Segal, Frank Alvarez-Sanchez et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning1992

    Objective To determine if fertilization occurs unnoticed among Norplant users who are ovulatory. Design Serial blood samples were obtained during 1 month from sexually active Norplant users experiencing regular menstrual bleeding patterns and a control group of noncontracepting women trying to conceive. The sequential blood samples were assayed for the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). Setting All samples were obtained from women re…

  • Assessing the Acceptability of NORPLANT Implants in Four Countries

    Margot Zimmerman, Margot L Zimmerman et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning1990Cited by: 5

    In 1986-87, a qualitative research project was conducted in the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Indonesia, and Thailand to expand understanding of the acceptability of NORPLANT contraceptive implants beyond inferences made on the basis of continuation rates. In each of the four study sites, focus group discussions or in-depth interviews were held with potential acceptors, current NORPLANT users, discontinuers, husbands of women in these three groups, …

  • The Clinical Performance of NORPLANT@R Implants Over Time

    Francisco Alvarez-Sanchez, Francisco Alvarez‐Sánchez et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning1988

    Francisco Alvarez-Sanchez, Vivian Brache, Anibal Faundes, The Clinical Performance of NORPLANT@R Implants Over Time: A Comparison of Two Cohorts, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1988), pp. 118-121

  • New Insights on the Mode of Action of Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices in Women

    Frank Álvarez, Vivian Brache et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning1988

    To gain a better understanding of the mechanism of action of intrauterine devices (IUDs), a search was made for ova in the genital tracts of 115 women using no contraception and of 56 women using IUDs, all of whom volunteered for study in conjunction with surgical sterilization. Ova were recovered from tubal flushings between 48 and 120 hours after the midcycle peak of luteinizing hormone in 39% of the IUD users compared with 56% of women in the …

  • Recovery of Fertility After Use of the Levonorgestrel 20 mcg/day or Copper T 380 Ag Intrauterine Device

    Hedia Belhadj, Irving Sivin et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning1987

  • Intrauterine Contraception with Copper and with Levonorgestrel

    Irving Sivin, Francisco Alvarez et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning1985

    First year results of a randomized study of 1509 users of the Copper T380Ag with a silver core or of an IUD releasing 20 mcg day of levonorgestrel are reported. The cumulative gross pregnancy rate for each device was 0.3 per 100 at one year, with more than 490 women having one year of use with each device. The levonorgestrel-releasing device was associated with significantly fewer bleeding days and significantly increased hemoglobin levels when c…