Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volume 5, Issue 9 (August 2015)

ISSN Print: 2160-8792   ISSN Online: 2160-8806

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Management and Outcome of Pregnant Women with HIV Acquired by Vertical Transmission

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DOI: 10.4236/ojog.2015.59068    3,545 Downloads   4,474 Views  

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The majority of children with perinatally acquired human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) do not survive beyond childhood but this is changing due to the benefit of antiretroviral therapy for the perinatally infected cohort, so affected children are now approaching the age to be mothers. The aim of this article is to evaluate the outcomes of pregnant women with HIV acquired by vertical transmission in our centre and encourage the results obtained in “Thirty Years Later: Pregnancies in Female Perinatally Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1”, a review article published in this journal in 2012 [2]. We report 6 patients with eight pregnancies with HIV acquired by vertical transmission. They delivered a total of nine newborns between 2004 and 2013. In any case, mother-to-child transmission was reported. The management of pregnant women with HIV acquired by vertical transmission is complicated, since the patients are the most of the cases young and the compliance to the treatment may be poor. The prematurity was the more frequent complication and the cesarean section was the more frequent form of ending. In our case series, mother-to-child transmission was absent.

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Delgado, V. , Varea, A. , Valero, M. , Almela, V. , Montesinos, V. , Tejedor, A. and Marín, A. (2015) Management and Outcome of Pregnant Women with HIV Acquired by Vertical Transmission. Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 5, 470-474. doi: 10.4236/ojog.2015.59068.

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