|  | | | | Pregnancy and Pandemic Flu | | | Autor(es): | ELLIOTT, Elizabeth J.
Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia | | Instituição: | Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
| | País: | Arlington/VA, USA | | Publicação/Editora: | Clinical Infectious Diseases 2010;50:691–692 | | Data da publicação: | 01/03/2010 | | Número de Páginas: | 2 | | Veiculação no PEC: | 18/02/2010 18h52 | | Resumo: | For most women, pregnancy is a time of joy, tinged with the excitement and expectation of a new family member. However, the pandemic of H1N1 influenza A 2009 (H1N1/09) (swine flu) changed all that. Fear gripped pregnant women the world over as it became apparent, early after the emergence of the novel H1N1 virus, that some infected women became ill very rapidly. Some developed severe complications and required intensive care. Some of the women and some of their newborns died.
But should we have been surprised? Pregnancy causes immunologic and physiologic changes, and both are likely contributors to increased susceptibility to infection and its complications. It has previously been recognized that pregnant women are more likely to experience complications, especially severe pneumonia, when infected with seasonal influenza. Furthermore, historical data from previous pandemics (in 1918 and 1957) indicate an excess of deaths in pregnancy and an increased risk of premature delivery and stillbirth. | | Arquivo para Download: | | PEC-SBI_Influe_Pregnancy and Pandemic Flu.pdf | | Links Relacionados: | | http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/650461 |
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