THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS SARS-COV-2 AND PREGNANCY: LITERATURE REVIEW


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Having emerged in China, the new coronavirus SARS- CoV-2 has spread rapidly worldwide. Pregnant women are patients who have risk factors for severe/complicated acute respiratory viral infections and influenza; however, there have been presently only few works that highlight the specific features of the course of COVID-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, in pregnant women and newborns. The aim of the review was to search for and analyze publications considering the characteristics of the course of COVID-19 in pregnant women and newborns. Pregnancy and childbirth do not seem to aggravate the course of COVID-19; on the contrary, the latter can deteriorate the course of pregnancy: it can cause respiratory distress syndrome and lead to premature birth and miscarriage. There is no current evidence for mother-to-fetus placental transmission of COVID-19 and mother-to-baby transmission during breastfeeding. A large number of interim guidelines for the management of pregnant women with COVID-19 have been published.

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Tatiana V. PRIPUTNEVICH

Academician V.I. Kulakov National Medical Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: priputl@gmail.com
Head of the Department of microbiology, clinical pharmacology and epidemiology Moscow, Russia

Alexey B. GORDEEV

Academician V.I. Kulakov National Medical Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: gordeew@vega.protres.ru
Senior Researcher in the Laboratory of microbiology, Department of microbiology, clinical pharmacology and epidemiology, PhD Moscow, Russia

Lyudmila A. LYUBASOVSKAYA

Academician V.I. Kulakov National Medical Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: labmik@yandex.ru
Head of the Unit of clinical pharmacology, Department of microbiology, clinical pharmacology and epidemiology, PhD. Moscow, Russia

Natalia E. SHABANOVA

Academician V.I. Kulakov National Medical Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: n_shabanova@oparina4.ru
Researcher in the Unit of clinical pharmacology, Department of microbiology, clinical pharmacology and epidemiology, PhD Moscow, Russia

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