Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of SARS-CoV-2 on pregnancy complications, which increased compared to the same period before the pandemic.
Material And Methods: This prospective study was conducted at Etlik Zübeyde Hanım Women›s Health Practices & Research Center between June 2020 and July 2020. The asymptomatic term PROM and miscarriage pregnant women were screened for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2) positivity by using IgM and IgG antibody tests. All the positive cases were confirmed by real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). All the patients answered 12 questions to determine their approach to COVID-19.
Results: Four of the 205 (2%) term PROM patients had positive anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgM antibody tests, one of the 205 (0.5%) term PROM patients had a positive anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody test, and one of the 205 (% 0.5) term PROM patients had positive anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgM and IgG antibody tests. All 230 miscarriage patients had negative IgM/IgG antibody tests. Four of the positive antibody cases had positive RT-PCR tests (2%) and were referred to a pandemic hospital. The patients thought that 93.2% and 95.6% of pregnant women with term PROM and miscarriage, respectively, SARS-CoV-2 would infect themselves, and 89.8% and 92.6%, respectively, would infect their children. The number of patients who would not consider pregnancy if they were not pregnant during this period was significantly higher in the term PROM (48.3%) compared to the miscarriage (27.8%) patients (p < 0.005).
Conclusions: No COVID-19 cases were determined in the asymptomatic miscarriage patients. In the asymptomatic term PROM patients, the effects of COVID were not observed.
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Department of Pharmacy/Evidence-Based Pharmacy Center, West China Second, University Hospital, Sichuan University; Children's Medicine Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu; NMPA Key Laboratory for Technical Research on Drug Products in Vitro and in Vivo Correlation, Chengdu; Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Sichuan University, Ministry of Education, Chengdu; Chinese Evidence-based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan Universit. Electronic address:
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Objective: This study aimed to assess whether early administration of prophylactic antibiotics for term premature rupture of membranes reduces the incidence of maternal and neonatal infections.
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Centre of General Practice, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Center for Perioperative Optimization, Department of Surgery, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Herlev, Denmark.
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Center for Orthopaedics, Trauma Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
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Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) may negatively influence the patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) when undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, functional outcomes in this select population remains poorly characterized. This study aimed to compare clinical outcomes and rate of achieving Minimal Clinically Important Difference for Improvement (MCID-I) and Minimal Clinically Important Difference for Worsening (MCID-W) between MS and non-MS TKAs.
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