TITLE:
Pregnancy in Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic: Clinical Opinion
AUTHORS:
Laila Yahya A. Alhubaishi, Atif Bashir Eltayeb Fazari
KEYWORDS:
Coronavirus-COVID-19, Pregnancy, Hydroxychloroquine, Maternal Morbidity, Maternal Mortality, Neonatal Outcome, Teratogenicity, Low Resources Countries
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Vol.10 No.5,
May
13,
2020
ABSTRACT: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly
discovered coronavirus. This novel coronavirus is called SARS-COV-2 and the
disease that it causes is called COVID-19 causes serious respiratory morbidity
and mortality. We aim to spot COVID-19 disease during pregnancy during this
pandemic era. COVID-19 has various clinical presentations almost same in
pregnant and non-pregnant victims. The hallmark for treatment is supportive
management. Vertical transmission is probable but still not well confirmed and
no evidence for virus in amniotic fluid, cord blood, neonatal throat swabs,
placenta swabs, genital fluid and breastmilk samples from COVID-19 infected
mothers. Research is running everywhere looking step ahead for actual treatment
and vaccination. COVID-19 is newly emerged disease still not well explored in
many aspects looking for soon definite treatment and vaccination for prevention
to roll COVID-19.