Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of pregnant and newly-delivered women with Covid-19 admitted to intensive care

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pregnant women, high risk pregnancy, postpartal period, coronavirus infections.

Abstract

Introduction: Infection due to SARS-CoV-2 virus has become a pandemic that has caused great number of complications and is usually fatal for pregnant and newly-delivered women.

Objective: To describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of pregnant and newly-delivered women with Covid-19 admitted to intensive care units.

Methods: An observational descriptive, cross-sectional study of 56 pregnant and newly-delivered women with confirmed diagnosis of Covid-19 was carried out; they were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Dr. Joaquín Castillo Duany Teaching Provincial Hospital in Santiago de Cuba during 2021. The analyzed variables were age, past health history, cause of admission, state when discharged from the institution and the main cause of death. For this purpose, the frequencies, percentages and case fatality rate were calculated.

Results: There was a prevalence of pregnant women in all the age groups (58.9%) relative to the newly-delivered women (41.1%), mainly in the 31- 35 age group (30.3%). Hypertension was the most frequent comorbidity with 71.4 and 28.6%, for pregnant and newly-delivered women, respectively; as long as, 66.6% of the first ones and 33.3% of the second ones were admitted due to pneumonia. All the pregnant women were discharged alive and 7 newly-delivered women died. Case fatality rate was 12.5 and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome appeared in 57.2% of those affected.

Conclusions: Hypertension was the most frequent comorbidity, viral pneumonia was the main admission diagnosis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, the first direct cause of death.

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Niger Guzmán Pérez, Hospital Provincial Docente Dr. Joaquín Castillo Duany. Santiago de Cuba

Servicio de Cuidados intensivos, profesor titular

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2024-02-28

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Guzmán Pérez N, Oliva Corujo L, Ortiz Villalón RA, Acosta Arefet N, Guzmán Pérez A. Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of pregnant and newly-delivered women with Covid-19 admitted to intensive care. MEDISAN [Internet]. 2024 Feb. 28 [cited 2025 Jun. 3];28(1):e4657. Available from: https://medisan.sld.cu/index.php/san/article/view/4657

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