Publications by authors named "Heather M Link"
Article Synopsis
- A 34-year-old pregnant woman experienced false-positive HIV test results after receiving a Tdap booster vaccine, despite initially testing negative for HIV during her first trimester.
- The false-positive results appeared in both initial screening and confirmatory tests, but follow-up tests indicated she was HIV-negative, ruling out laboratory error.
- Clinicians should be aware that vaccinations and other immune triggers can cause false-positive HIV results, emphasizing the importance of retesting sooner when such cases are suspected.
Buprenorphine-naloxone use in pregnancy: a systematic review and metaanalysis.
Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM
August 2020
Objective: The goal of this systematic review and metaanalysis is to compare pregnancy outcomes between pregnant women undergoing treatment for opioid use disorder with buprenorphine-naloxone and those undergoing treatment for opioid use disorder with other forms of medication-assisted treatment.
Study Design: PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, Cochrane Clinical Trials, and Web of Science were searched to identify studies assessing the relationship between maternal buprenorphine-naloxone use and pregnancy outcomes. Outcomes assessed included neonatal abstinence syndrome diagnosis and treatment, neonatal intensive care unit admission, length of neonatal hospital stay, delivery complications, mode of delivery, labor analgesia, illicit drug use, medication-assisted treatment dosage, gestational age at delivery, breastfeeding status, miscarriage, congenital anomalies, intrauterine fetal demise, birthweight, head circumference, length, and Apgar scores.