Clinical Characteristics of Pregnant Women with Covid-19 in Wuhan, China
23 Apr, 2020Despite the large and rapidly rising number of cases of coronavirus disease 2019
(Covid-19) and resulting deaths,1
there are limited
data about the clinical characteristics of pregnant
women with the disease.2,3 We extracted information regarding epidemiologic, clinical, laboratory,
and radiologic characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of pregnant women with Covid-19 through
the epidemic reporting system of the National
Health Commission of China, which stores the
medical records of all 50 designated hospitals in
Wuhan city.
From December 8, 2019, to March 20, 2020,
we identified 118 pregnant women with Covid-19
in Wuhan according to the criteria of the Chinese
Clinical Guidance for Covid-19 Pneumonia Diagnosis and Treatment; 84 women (71%) had positive
polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) testing for severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2), and the remaining 34 (29%) had suggestive
findings on computed tomography (CT) of the
chest. Criteria for mild, severe, and critical disease and other methodologic details are provided
in the Supplementary Appendix, available with
the full text of this letter at NEJM.org. The pregnant patients represented 0.24% of all reported
patients with Covid-19 at these hospitals during
this time.
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