ABSTRACT

Background: Corona virus disease 19 is an acute respiratory disease, the causative organism being SARS-COV-2, a novel coronavirus from china alarmed whole world. (1) and later became a pandemic. As pregnant women were equally susceptible to this infection there was a need to follow these cases closely so that guidelines can be made based on these observations.

Aim: To report the clinical experience regarding course of disease in pregnant women and fetal outcome in those who delivered during the study.

Methods: The clinical course of 47 pregnant women admitted in COVID isolation ward of Sir Gangaram Hospital from 8th April to 7th July were closely followed. Data regarding their demographic characteristics, clinical findings, laboratory tests, imaging studies, treatment given and neonatal and maternal outcome in patients who delivered during this period, was collected. All the data was entered on SPSS version 23 and analyzed.

Results: Mean age of women was 28.4 years, ranging between 19–39 years. Mean duration of gestation was 32weeks ranging between 10 to 40 weeks. 82.9% women were multigravidas.72.3%women were educated. 78.8% patients got infected via unknown source rest from the family.42.5% infected women were asymptomatic. Out of 57%symptomatic women 6% had severe disease.76.5%pts had raised TLC while in 8.5%.

Conclusion: COVID 19 is a new disease and herd immunity will take time to develop .pregnant women are equally susceptible to this infection although current study points it to be a less fatal disease in pregnant women as compared to other corona viruses but care must be taken to protect pregnant women as evidence on long term fetomaternal follow up is not available to date.

Keywords: Pregnancy, clinical course, fetomaternal, SARS-CoV -2