Three Cases of Intravascular Thrombosis Occurring in Patients Receiving Oral Contraceptives

Abstract

3 healthy women aged 35 22 and 28 years developed intravascular thrombosis while receiving oral contraceptive therapy (Case 1 took Anovlar for 1 years Case 2 took Conovid for 18 months and Case 3 took Enovid for 1 month). Cases 2 and 3 had chest lesions and were treated as pulmonary embolic disease. Case 1 was fatal and directs attention to the possibility that arterial thrombosis (in this case carotid) may also exist in addition to the more thrombophlebitis of the legs and pulmonary embolism.