COVID-19 and developmental origins of health and disease.
Early Hum Dev
; 155: 105322, 2021 04.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1053333
ABSTRACT
From the moment of the identification of SARS-CoV-2 as an etiological agent of the severe clinical pictures of pneumonia that were being slowly observed all over the world, numerous studies have been conducted to increase the knowledge about what was an unknown virus until then. The efforts were mainly aimed to acquire epidemiological, microbiological, pathogenetic, clinical, diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive information in order to increase the available weapons to fight an infection which was rapidly taking on the characteristics of the pandemic. Given the topicality of the problem, not everything has yet been fully understood and clarified, especially in the maternal-fetalneonatal field, where we are beginning to question what could be the outcomes of newborn babies born to mothers who contracted SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy. Thus, the aim of this review is to analyze the long-term outcomes of this infection that could affect the offspring, regardless of a possible maternal-fetal transmission, focusing on, above all, the role of maternal immune activation and the expression of the Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in particular at the placental level.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
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COVID-19
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Infant, Newborn, Diseases
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Infant, Newborn
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Pregnancy
Language:
English
Journal:
Early Hum Dev
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.earlhumdev.2021.105322
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