THE TCU 380A IUD AND THE FRAMELESS IUD THE FLEXIGARD - INTERIM 3-YEARDATA FROM AN INTERNATIONAL MULTICENTER TRIAL

The TCu 380A and FlexiGard IUDs were compared in a randomized multicen ter trial including 28 institutes in 13 countries. There were 53 inser tion failures with the FlexiGard and one with the TCu 380A. There were 2184 successful insertions of the TCu380A and 2102 of the FlexiGard d evice. The three-year pregnancy rates for the TCu 380A and FlexiGard w ere similar (1.6 and 1.9 per 100 women, respectively) but the FlexiGar d three-year expulsion rate (7.4 per 100 women) was significantly high er than that of the TCu 380A (4.4 per 100 women). The insertion techni que for the FlexiGard needs to be improved in order to lower the expul sion rate.