ArticleArchives of gynecology and obstetrics2021
Vaginal delivery in SARS-CoV-2-infected pregnant women in Israel: a multicenter prospective analysis.
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- Neonatal outcomes among pregnant women with COVID-19: a systematic scoping review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- Mother-to-child transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- A Ranking of the Most Common Maternal COVID-19 Symptoms: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Pooled it
- A Multicentric Study on Adverse COVID-19 Outcomes Among Pregnant and Nonpregnant Women in Multidisciplinary Hospitals of Kazakhstan.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Adverse obstetric outcomes in cases of meconium-stained amniotic fluid complicated with intrapartum fever.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2024Article
- SARS-CoV-2 infection by trimester of pregnancy and adverse perinatal outcomes: a Mexican retrospective cohort study.BMJ open · 2024Article
- The impact of gestational weeks of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection on perinatal outcomes.Reproductive health · 2024Article
- Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from mother to fetus or neonate: What to know and what to do?Seminars in fetal & neonatal medicine · 2023Review
- Comparison of clinical features and perinatal outcomes between pre-variant and post-variant periods in pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2: analysis of 1935 cases.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2022Article
- Prognosis of COVID-19 in the middle eastern population, knowns and unknowns.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
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- SARS-CoV-2-Morphology, Transmission and Diagnosis during Pandemic, Review with Element of Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
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Abstract
key messageAmong SARS-CoV-2-infected mothers, vaginal delivery rates were high and associated with favorable outcomes with no cases of neonatal COVID-19. PURPOSE: To investigate the mode of delivery and its impact on immediate neonatal outcome in SARS-CoV-2-infected women.
methodsA prospective study following pregnant women diagnosed with COVID-19 who delivered between March 15th and July 4th in seven university affiliated hospitals in Israel.
resultsA total of 52 women with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 delivered in the participating centers during the study period. The median gestational age at the time of delivery was 38 weeks, with 16 (30.8%) cases complicated by spontaneous preterm birth. Forty-three women (82.7%) underwent a trial of labor. The remaining 9 women underwent pre-labor cesarean delivery mostly due to obstetric indications, whereas one woman with a critical COVID-19 course underwent urgent cesarean delivery due to maternal deterioration. Among those who underwent a trial of labor (n = 43), 39 (90.7%) delivered vaginally, whereas 4 (9.3%) cases resulted in cesarean delivery. Neonatal RT-PCR nasopharyngeal swabs tested negative in all cases, and none of the infants developed pneumonia. No maternal and neonatal deaths were encountered.
conclusionsIn this prospective study among SARS-CoV-2-infected mothers, vaginal delivery rates were high and associated with favorable outcomes with no cases of neonatal COVID-19. Our findings underscore that delivery management among SARS-CoV-2-infected mothers should be based on obstetric indications and may potentially reduce the high rates of cesarean delivery previously reported in this setting.
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