Coronavirus and Pregnancy: A Literature Review of Maternal and Fetal Outcomes

Abstract

Purpose: This study aimed to conduct a literature review of the maternal and fetal outcomes reported for pregnant women with coronavirus disease.Methodology: This articles were searched using a diversity of key words such as “Coronavirus and/or pregnancy,” “COVID-19 and/or pregnancy,” “SARS-CoV-2 and/or pregnancy,” “COVID-19 disease and/or pregnancy,” and “COVID-19 pneumonia and/or pregnancy”, “Coronavirus and/or maternal and fetal outcomes”, “COVID-19 and/or maternal and fetal outcomes”, without restriction of language to document assembling of as various cases as possible. Those articles were derivative from the World Health Organization (WHO) agendas and rules. Other data related to COVID-19 and reported cases were conducted utilizing seven electronic databases (CINAHL, MEDLINE, ProQuest, PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, and Cochrane) for studies published in various languages from May 2020 to September 2020. Results: Pregnant women don't seem to be further vulnerable to penalties of infection of coronavirus than overall people. Clinical research information are anticipated for better appreciative of any morbid effect of this new straining and its health threats on both the mother and neonates. There are no documents to notify whether pregnancy upsurges vulnerability to coronavirus. Fever and cough are the supreme symptoms of coronavirus, with more than eighty percent of hospitalized women donating with these symptoms. As regards to inadequate information and the accessible documents from other respiratory pathogens such as SARS, MERS and influenza, it is indefinite whether pregnant women with coronavirus will involvement extra severe ailment.Unique Contribution to theory, practice and policy: Coronavirus ailment severity in pregnant women is mild, moderate, and critical seems alike to that in non-pregnant women. Extra studies are required to comprehend and recognize the accurate greatness of jeopardies and improve management about maternal and fetal outcomes