Abstract
Objective: To report clinical features, obstetrical outcomes, and vertical transmission in pregnancies affected by COVID-19.
Methodology: It was a multicenter observational study conducted at two tertiary care hospitals of Lahore including Sir Ganga Ram hospital and Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Lahore, Pakistan.The record of COVID-19 positive pregnant women treated for three months (April to June 2020) was collected. Data was collected using predesigned proforma including clinical features, obstetric outcome, and vertical transmission. Quantitative variables were expressed as mean ± standard deviation, while qualitative variables as the frequency with percentages. SPSS version 24 was used to analyze data.
Results: Seventy COVID-19 positive pregnant women were included in the case series. The mean age was 28.6+3.98 years and mean gestational age of 34± 8.004 weeks. Of these 57.1% were asymptomatic. Among symptomatic women, the commonest symptoms were fever and cough in 66.7%, followed by shortness of breath in 30%, and myalgia in 26.7%. Two women expired due to severe pneumonia. Two cases of miscarriage, while no case of intrauterine demise, spontaneous preterm labor, neonatal death, or vertical transmission was observed.
Conclusion: Pregnancy did not modify the course of the disease. The clinical characteristics of the disease were the same in pregnant and non -pregnant patients.
Shehla M Baqai, Shamsa Humayun, Viqar Ashraf, Hina Akhtar, Rabia Sajjad, Saima Chaudhary. (2020) COVID-19 in pregnant women: A multicenter case series, Journal of the Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists of Pakistan , Volume-10, Issue-4.
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