title: Postpartum sterilisation with the Filshie titanium silicone-rubber clip and subsequent pregnancy.
abstract: Pregnancy subsequent to postpartum Filshie clip sterilisation has occurred in 8 out of 789 patients operated on at Paarl Hospital since early 1983. As most pregnancies after sterilisation occur within 2 years, more failures can be expected. The use of this method has thus been discontinued.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011247:Pregnancy; D013019:South Africa; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013246:Sterilization, Tubal / Q000379:methods*