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The Unforeseen Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Dismal Pregnancy and Fetal Outcomes

India noticed a surge in maternal mortality and stillbirth rate during the COVID-19 pandemic. This rise in mortality is not always due to viral infection by COVID-19 but is probably contributed by other determinants. We present a case of maternal mortality with stillbirth in a multigravida, at 41 we...

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Autores principales: Begum, Jasmina, K, Shabnam, Sahu, Pooja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9719054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36475174
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31044
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description India noticed a surge in maternal mortality and stillbirth rate during the COVID-19 pandemic. This rise in mortality is not always due to viral infection by COVID-19 but is probably contributed by other determinants. We present a case of maternal mortality with stillbirth in a multigravida, at 41 weeks' gestation, with bronchial asthma, severe preeclampsia, fetal bradycardia, severe symptoms of flu infection, and a previous cesarean delivery. She delivered a stillborn baby by emergency cesarean delivery and due to adverse obstetric consequences, she succumbed. Disruption of the overwhelmed healthcare system to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic has caused unsupervised pregnancy, unprecedented delays in reaching the hospital, delays in receiving proper care, and suboptimal care due to difficulty in differentiating actual severe preeclampsia from COVID-19-induced preeclampsia-like syndrome have resulted in preventable maternal mortality and stillbirth.
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spelling pubmed-97190542022-12-05 The Unforeseen Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Dismal Pregnancy and Fetal Outcomes Begum, Jasmina K, Shabnam Sahu, Pooja Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology India noticed a surge in maternal mortality and stillbirth rate during the COVID-19 pandemic. This rise in mortality is not always due to viral infection by COVID-19 but is probably contributed by other determinants. We present a case of maternal mortality with stillbirth in a multigravida, at 41 weeks' gestation, with bronchial asthma, severe preeclampsia, fetal bradycardia, severe symptoms of flu infection, and a previous cesarean delivery. She delivered a stillborn baby by emergency cesarean delivery and due to adverse obstetric consequences, she succumbed. Disruption of the overwhelmed healthcare system to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic has caused unsupervised pregnancy, unprecedented delays in reaching the hospital, delays in receiving proper care, and suboptimal care due to difficulty in differentiating actual severe preeclampsia from COVID-19-induced preeclampsia-like syndrome have resulted in preventable maternal mortality and stillbirth. Cureus 2022-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9719054/ /pubmed/36475174 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31044 Text en Copyright © 2022, Begum et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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