1. Is HPV vaccination in pregnancy safe?
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Ronald F. Lamont, Ulla Bonde, Ole Mogensen, and Jan Stener Joergensen
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HPV ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions ,Immunology ,Reviews ,Abortion ,Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions/epidemiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Papillomavirus Vaccines ,0302 clinical medicine ,Papillomavirus Infections/prevention & control ,Pregnancy ,vaccine ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Adverse effect ,Papillomavirus Vaccines/administration & dosage ,Pharmacology ,Fetus ,Spontaneous miscarriage ,business.industry ,Obstetrics ,Papillomavirus Infections ,Vaccination ,Vaccination/adverse effects ,Hpv vaccination ,medicine.disease ,adverse events ,Abortion, Spontaneous ,spontaneous abortion ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Female ,business ,Abortion, Spontaneous/epidemiology - Abstract
Millions of doses of HPV vaccine have been administered globally. Inadvertent administration of HPV vaccine during pregnancy occurs given that the main recipients of the vaccine are fertile young women, who might be unaware of their pregnancy at the time of their vaccination. To investigate the subject of HPV vaccine and pregnancy , the databases of PubMed and Embase were searched to find the relevant literature published in English within the last 10 y. Most of the evidence pertaining to fetal adverse events following HPV vaccination relates to spontaneous miscarriage. None of the relevant studies found any significantly increased rate of spontaneous abortion in the overall analyses. There was no indication of other HPV vaccine-associated adverse events in pregnancy or immediately post-conception.
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- 2016
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