{"id":8371,"date":"2020-07-21T15:48:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T22:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8371"},"modified":"2021-04-02T15:48:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T22:48:58","slug":"coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-a-systematic-review-of-pregnancy-and-the-possibility-of-vertical-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/21\/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-a-systematic-review-of-pregnancy-and-the-possibility-of-vertical-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Systematic Review of Pregnancy and the Possibility of Vertical Transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0systematic literature review of COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in pregnan<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">t women<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and neonates<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n=21 studies corresponding to 90 pregnancies and 92 neonates)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0found that the most common symptoms among pregnant women were<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0fever, cough, and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">difficulty breathing.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Three<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0women were admitted to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ICU and required mechanical ventilation,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">including\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">one woman\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">died and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">other\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was still receiving intensive care at the time of publication. The most\u00a0commonly<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reported\u00a0complication<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were preterm labor (n=29), fetal distress (n=15), premature rupture of membranes (n=6), chorioamnionitis (n=1) and stillbirth (n=1).\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Four out of 86<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(5%)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0neonates tested for SARS-CoV-2 were positive. One neonate was negative at birth and positive 24 hours later; a corresponding amniotic fluid sample was positive, but cord blood was negative.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ashraf et al. (2020). Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Systematic Review of Pregnancy and the Possibility of Vertical Transmission. Journal of Reproduction &amp; Infertility.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/32685412\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/32685412<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0systematic literature review of COVID-19\u00a0in pregnant women\u00a0and neonates\u00a0(n=21 studies corresponding to 90 pregnancies and 92 neonates)\u00a0found that the most common symptoms among pregnant women were\u00a0fever, cough, and\u00a0difficulty breathing.\u00a0Three\u00a0women were admitted to\u00a0the\u00a0ICU and required mechanical ventilation,\u00a0including\u00a0one woman\u00a0who\u00a0died and\u00a0another\u00a0who\u00a0was still receiving intensive care at the time of publication. The most\u00a0commonly&#8211;reported\u00a0complications\u00a0were preterm labor (n=29), fetal distress (n=15), premature&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/21\/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-a-systematic-review-of-pregnancy-and-the-possibility-of-vertical-transmission\/\">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":[21],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371","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=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8373,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions\/8373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}