Late miscarriage and stillbirth in asymptomatic and symptomatic hospitalised pregnant women in Belgium during the first and second waves of COVID-19: a prospective nationwide population-based study ...

Abstract Background Stillbirth has been recognized as a possible complication of a SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy, probably due to destructive placental lesions (SARS-CoV-2 placentitis). The aim of this work is to analyse stillbirth and late miscarriage cases in unvaccinated pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the first two waves (wild-type period) in Belgium. Methods Stillbirths and late miscarriages in our prospective observational nationwide registry of SARS-CoV-2 infected pregnant women (n = 982) were classified by three authors using a modified WHO-UMC classification sys... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Vercoutere, An
Zina, Mbiton Joel
Benoit, Karolien
Costa, Elena
Derisbourg, Sara
Boulvain, Michel
Roelens, Kristien
Vandenberghe, Griet
Daelemans, Caroline
Dokumenttyp: Datenquelle
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Verlag/Hrsg.: figshare
Schlagwörter: Medicine / Cell Biology / Biotechnology / Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified / Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified / Infectious Diseases / FOS: Health sciences / Computational Biology
Sprache: unknown
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28970939
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6650187

Abstract Background Stillbirth has been recognized as a possible complication of a SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy, probably due to destructive placental lesions (SARS-CoV-2 placentitis). The aim of this work is to analyse stillbirth and late miscarriage cases in unvaccinated pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the first two waves (wild-type period) in Belgium. Methods Stillbirths and late miscarriages in our prospective observational nationwide registry of SARS-CoV-2 infected pregnant women (n = 982) were classified by three authors using a modified WHO-UMC classification system for standardized case causality assessment. Results Our cohort included 982 hospitalised pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV-2, with 23 fetal demises (10 late miscarriages from 12 to 22 weeks of gestational age and 13 stillbirths). The stillbirth rate was 9.5‰ for singleton pregnancies and 83.3‰ for multiple pregnancies, which seems higher than for the background population (respectively 5.6‰ and 13.8‰). The ...