American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
1168 VOL. 114, NO. 6, DECEMBER 2009
Is Contraception Advisable?
Current guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
recommend prophylactic quadrivalent human papillomavirus
(HPV) types 6/11/16/18 vaccination of women up to the age of 26 years,
a population with childbearing potential. While the vaccine is not
recommended for use in pregnant women, inadvertent exposures during
pregnancy do occur. Therefore, clinicians and patients will be interested
in two articles in this issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology that report pregnancy
outcomes among women who received HPV vaccination within 30 days
of conception, at any time during pregnancy, or at any time during phase
III vaccine trials.