SARS-CoV-2 placentitis and severe pregnancy outcome after maternal infection: A Danish case series.

Introduction: SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy may cause viral inflammation of the placenta, resulting in fetal demise even without fetal or newborn infection. The impact of timing of the infection and the mechanisms that cause fetal morbidity and mortality are not well understood.

Material And Methods: To describe placental pathology from women with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy, a SARS-CoV-2 immunohistochemistry-positive placenta and late miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death, or medically indicated birth due to fetal distress.

[Delivery and analgesia of labouring women with congenital spine abnormalities].

Congenital spine abnormalities are common. These anomalies can be associated with other anomalies and different degrees of symptom severity. In pregnant women multidisciplinary planning and considerations of special needs may be necessary as summarised in this review.