A Review of Covid-19’s Impact on Pregnancy

Abstract

Background and Aim: Since the new Coronavirus started spreading in December 2019, the virus has had enormous consequences on people’s health and way of life in every nation on earth has been touched. A pregnant lady is more susceptible to infection than a healthy one because she is immunocompromised throughout pregnancy. The purpose of this present paper is to review relevant published literature to determine the impact of covid-19 on pregnant women.
 Methods: In this narrative review all publications published in the databases PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Science Direct, and Web of Science from December 2019 to August 2022 by conducting a complete search with the required keywords, including covid-19, coronavirus illness 2019, SARS-CoV-2, and miscarriage, abortion, or pregnancy outcomes. After applying inclusion/exclusion criteria and following the PRISMA guidelines, total 25 papers were identified and thoroughly examined. There are few accessible data on the effects of covid-19 on pregnancy. Every day, new information emerges on the management of pregnancy during the covid-19 era.
 Results: Pregnant women with covid-19 experienced fever, cough, dyspnea, myalgia, and exhaustion in the early stages, while headache, chest discomfort, and diarrhea were less common. Results shows that covid-19 can cause fetal distress, miscarriage, respiratory distress, and preterm delivery in pregnant women, according to the reviewed literature.
 Conclusion: There is a higher risk in women who have a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result. covid-19 infection during pregnancy may cause pregnancy problems such as preterm birth, fetal distress and miscarriages. Due to the absence of adequate data regarding the effects of covid-19 on pregnancy, it is required to monitor suspected pregnant women to prevent miscarriage, fetal distress, respiratory distress and preterm delivery.

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“…Pandemic potential infectious illnesses like plague, cholera, flu, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV have regularly emerged and spread throughout history, and now the world faces COVID-19, declared a global pandemic by WHO on 11th March 2020 [1][2][3][4][5][6]. In December 2019, health workers identified a novel coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV) after discovering many cases admitted to hospitals with symptoms similar to viral pneumonia, including fever, cough, chest pain, dyspnea, and lung infiltration [7,8] and the spread of the new variant of coronavirus began at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, Hubei Province [3,5,6]. In order to minimize the spread of viral outbreaks in communities, nations worldwide took precautionary measures such as imposing nationwide lockdowns, shutting down institutions, and isolating infected individuals, which were essential, but they also stimulated various psychological stressors such as experiencing fear and panic, feeling frustrated and bored, facing a scarcity of basic supplies, lacking authentic and reliable information, being overwhelmed with stigma, losing jobs, and facing financial recession [9,10].…”

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