{"id":4227,"date":"2020-02-12T15:52:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:22:54","slug":"clinical-characteristics-and-intrauterine-vertical-transmission-potential-of-covid-19-infection-in-nine-pregnant-women-a-retrospective-review-of-medical-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/12\/clinical-characteristics-and-intrauterine-vertical-transmission-potential-of-covid-19-infection-in-nine-pregnant-women-a-retrospective-review-of-medical-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical characteristics and intrauterine vertical transmission potential of COVID-19 infection in nine pregnant women: a retrospective review of medical records"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A case series of nine pregnant women with COVID-2019 provides a description of clinical characteristics and initial information on risk of vertical transmission.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">None of the patients developed severe COVID-19 pneumonia or died, as of Feb 4, 2020.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seven patients presented with a fever; four, with cough; three, myalgia; and two, sore throat or malaise. Five had lymphopenia (&lt;1\u00b70 \u00d7 10\u2079 cells per L); three, increased aminotransferase concentrations. Fetal distress was monitored in two cases.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All nine patients had a caesarean section (third trimester) leading to a livebirth.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All nine newborns had a 1-min Apgar score of 8\u20139 and a 5-min Apgar score of 9\u201310.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Six patients had amniotic fluid, cord blood, neonatal throat swab, and breastmilk samples tested for SARS-CoV-2. All samples tested negative for the virus.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chen H, et al. (Feb 12, 2020) Clinical characteristics and intrauterine vertical transmission potential of COVID-19 infection in nine pregnant women: a retrospective review of medical records. The Lancet. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)30360-3\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)30360-3<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case series of nine pregnant women with COVID-2019 provides a description of clinical characteristics and initial information on risk of vertical transmission. None of the patients developed severe COVID-19 pneumonia or died, as of Feb 4, 2020.\u00a0 Seven patients presented with a fever; four, with cough; three, myalgia; and two, sore throat or malaise&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/12\/clinical-characteristics-and-intrauterine-vertical-transmission-potential-of-covid-19-infection-in-nine-pregnant-women-a-retrospective-review-of-medical-records\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}