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Pregnancy with Covid‐19: Management considerations for care of severe and critically ill cases

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Pregnant women are a potentially highly vulnerable population due to anatomical, physiological, and immunological changes under the COVID‐19 pandemic. Issues related to pregnancy with COVID‐19 attracted widespread attention from researchers.… Click to show full abstract

Pregnant women are a potentially highly vulnerable population due to anatomical, physiological, and immunological changes under the COVID‐19 pandemic. Issues related to pregnancy with COVID‐19 attracted widespread attention from researchers. A large number of articles were published aiming to elaborate clinical characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women infected with COVID‐19, in order to provide evidence for management. The existing data suggest that the overall prognosis of pregnancy with COVID‐19 is promising when compared with that of other previous coronaviruses. There is still maternal morbidity and mortality related to COVID‐19 reported. However, the optimal management of severe and critically ill cases of COVID‐19–infected pregnancy is poorly clarified. The possibility of postpartum exacerbation in pregnancy with COVID‐19 is also worthy of attention for obstetricians. This review makes further elaboration of the above issues.

Keywords: pregnancy; pregnancy covid; management; critically ill; ill cases; severe critically

Journal Title: American Journal of Reproductive Immunology
Year Published: 2020

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