EFFECTS OF COVID-19 INFECTION DURING PREGNANCY AND NEONATAL PROGNOSIS: WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE?

Alvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa; Herica Emilia Felix de Carvalho; Layze Braz de Oliveira; Guilherme Schneider; Emerson Lucas Silva Camargo; Evandro Watanabe; Denise Andrade; Ana Fatima Carvalho; Isabel Amelia Costa Mendes; Ines Fronteira

. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. In addition, the fact that most pregnant women acquired the infection in the third trimester of pregnancy [13, 23] , that follows the first cases of the disease were reported in December 2019. The emergence of a disease with respiratory implications in the third trimester of pregnancy is usually associated with a higher risk of C-sections, preterm births, low Apgar indexes, and low birth weight. Even though, in general, the pregnant women with COVID-19 tended to present mild respiratory symptoms, the risk of severe pneumonia during this period is high [14, 17, 18] , as well as that of adverse pregnancy outcomes, especially among those with other associated diseases such as preeclampsia or other complications because respiratory syndromes may aggravate pulmonary edema and decrease oxygen saturation [27,28].