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NEW CORONAVIRUS IN PREGNANT WOMEN. Maternal and perinatal outcomes. (preprint)
medrxiv; 2021.
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| medRxiv | ID: ppzbmed-10.1101.2021.06.03.21258328
ABSTRACT
Objectives:
To report the maternal and neonatal results of patients infected with COVID-19 in Panama.Methods:
The study is based on the analysis of pregnant women with COVID-19, in 5 hospitals in the Republic of Panama. The inclusion criteria were Patients with or without symptoms, positive RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 in the period from March 23 to 6 months after, whose births were attended in one of those 5 hospitals and who signed the consent. Data was obtained at the time of diagnosis of the infection and at the time of termination of pregnancy for the mother and newborn.Results:
253 patients met the inclusion criteria. Most were diagnosed in the third trimester (89.3%). 10.3% of the patients presented in a severe form of COVID-19. The most frequent complication was pre-eclampsia and if we add gestational hypertension they represent 21.2%; most of the patients terminated the pregnancy by caesarean section (58%). 26.9% (95% CI 21.3-32.9%) of the births were premature, and perinatal mortality was 5.4% (95% CI 3.0-9.0%). There was a need for mechanical ventilation in 5.9% (95% CI 3.6-9.6%) of the cohort and there were four maternal deaths (1.6% - 95% CI 0.6-4.0%).Conclusions:
This study of pregnant women infected with COVID-19 and diagnosed with RT-PCR shows serious maternal complications such as high admission to the ICU, need for mechanical ventilation and one death in every 64 infected. Frequent obstetric complications such as hypertension, premature rupture of membranes, high rate of prematurity and perinatal lethality were also seen.
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Main subject:
Eclampsia
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COVID-19
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Hypertension
Language:
English
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Preprint
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