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Pregnant women with COVID-19: a study in tertiary care centre

COVID-19 had become a pandemic since December 2019. Although the infection rate affecting the pregnant women is less when compared to general population, the data on the effect of coronavirus in pregnancy are limited to a few case studies This was a case series conducted at KIMS Hospital, Bengaluru for a period of 1 year from November 2020 to November 2021. All the pregnant women irrespective of the gestational age admitted at KIMS hospital with COVID-19 reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RTPCR) positive and gave the consent were included in our study. In our study, out of 480 pregnant women 13 cases were COVID-19 positive. Out of the 13 positive patients, 4 delivered vaginally and 6 of them underwent lower segment caesarean section (LSCS) in view of obstetric indications. 3 cases (23%) were lost to follow up. 9 (90%) of neonates were negative for COVID 19. The results of our study concluded that COVID-19 positivity rate is 2.7% among the admitted patients. There is a risk of adverse pregnancy outcome in severe COVID-19 infections. The limitation of our study was that number of infected pregnant women was less to study the pregnancy outcome. Further studies with larger sample size will be required to study the pregnancy outcome.