Complicated COVID-19 in pregnancy, maternal and neonatal outcomes: a case report.
Pan Afr Med J
; 41: 191, 2022.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1847714
ABSTRACT
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has exposed vulnerable populations, including pregnant women, to an unprecedented public health crisis. According to recent data, pregnancy in COVID-19 patients is associated with increased hospitalization, admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) and intubation. It has been suggested that pregnancy induced immune responses and cardiorespiratory changes can exaggerate the course of the COVID-19. The present is a case of a pregnant woman who presented with critical respiratory failure secondary to COVID-19 resulted in her admission to the ICU and mechanical ventilator support. After childbirth, maternal outcomes were marked by disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and cardiopulmonary arrest on day thirty-four of admission. As to the neonatal outcome, a preterm female baby was transferred to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and intubated immediately due to progressive respiratory distress. She was diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia with no evidence of COVID-19 and recovered after twenty-one days after NICU stay. This case showed that the maternal COVID-19 may lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome, coagulation dysfunction and preterm delivery. The risk of vertical transmission by SARS-CoV-2 is probably very low.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
/
Respiratory Distress Syndrome
/
COVID-19
Type of study:
Case report
/
Diagnostic study
/
Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Female
/
Humans
/
Infant, Newborn
/
Pregnancy
Language:
English
Journal:
Pan Afr Med J
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Pamj.2022.41.191.31102
Similar
MEDLINE
...
LILACS
LIS