The Impact of Coronavirus Disease-19 on Pregnancy Outcomes, A Case Series

Abstract

actual number. Although it has been over three years, health providers still could not find an exact treatment for the disease. Symptomatic treatments and vaccines have been developed, but the curative treatment is still waiting to be explored. Beyond the treatment, there are too many unknowns about COVID-19. The disease can react differently in different patient populations, such as pregnant women. Pregnant women may be risky of developing more severe conditions after infection due to physiological changes in the immune and cardiopulmonary systems during pregnancy (3). Small case series was published at the first stages of the pandemic and those studies reported increased fatality and more severe complications during pregnancy (4-6). However, COVID-19 pneumonia in pregnant women has been reported to be similar to that in non-pregnant women (7,8). The exact relationship between COVID-19 and pregnancy is not very clear. Furthermore, there is still no evidence of vertical transmission of . Therefore, the intrauterine and neonatal effects of the disease due to maternal infection are also unclear.The present study aimed to investigate the association between COVID-19 and pregnancy. We studied the maternal

COVID-19 infection during pregnancy

“…27 In a recent study from Turkey, it was stated that COVID-19 affected pregnancy and increased the rates of maternal mortality, stillbirth, and abortus. 28 In the current study, 13 (4.5%) pregnancies resulted in spontaneous abortion. Consistent with the findings of some other studies, COVID-19 infection was not seen to increase the risk of spontaneous abortion.…”