Diagnostic Tests and Clinical, Laboratory and Radiological Charactersitics of COVID-19 in Pregnant Women: A Review
subject: clinical characteristics, Pregnancy, covid-19 diagnostic testing, radiological characteristics, laboratory characteristics
description: The emerging Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a new infectious disease and the definitive gold standard for itsdiagnosis in pregnancy has not yet been established. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aimof reviewing the diagnostic methods and clinical, laboratory and radiological symptoms of COVID-19 diseasein pregnant women. The present study is a Narrative review. To do so, the keywords were searchedin the Scopus, Google scholar, PubMed, Embase, Science Direct, WHO databases from April 1, 2020to May 9, 2020. 34 articles were obtained and finally 6 articles were used to write this study. Evidencerelated to the purpose of this study was identified in three categories. The first category examines clinicalfindings (fever and cough), the second category examines laboratory findings (leukocytosis and lymphopenia),and a third category examines chest radiographic findings (Pure ground-glass opacity). Sinceinfection is one of the most important causes of death in pregnant women and is one of the preventableand controllable factors, so by identifying the correct diagnostic methods of this infection, at-risk pregnantwomen will be identified and Prevent the consequences of this infection.
creator: Sedigheh Hasani Moghadam, Abbas Alipour, Saeid AbedianKenari, Soghra khani
source: The Journal of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences
publisher: Qazvin University of Medical Sciences & Health Services
date: 2020
coverage: Medicine