Anti-Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 IgG Is Present in the Amniotic Fluid of both Infected and Vaccinated Women at Second Trimester of Pregnancy: A Cohort Study.

Introduction: Pregnant women are protected from the complications of COVID-19 infection, thanks to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccination. The benefit of this vaccination to prevent morbidity and mortality in the fetus has not yet been completely elucidated. Our aim was to test the presence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the amniotic fluid during the second trimester of pregnancy and then to compare them to the antibody levels in maternal serum to evaluate their correlation and to improve amniotic fluid immunological characteristics knowledge.

Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes with a Probably Too Simplified Diagnostic Procedure Compared to International Criteria: The Indian Case Study.

Diagnostic procedures for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are not uniformly defined worldwide. We retrospectively applied two diagnostic procedures (i.e.