key: cord-0932911-zi68q03a
authors: Wu, Yan-Ting; Li, Cheng; Zhang, Chen-Jie; Huang, He-Feng
title: Is termination of early pregnancy indicated in women with COVID-19?
date: 2020-05-20
journal: Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2020.05.037
sha: 7d78d2e846f7db610daca760684c5ffd5e1e1ac8
doc_id: 932911
cord_uid: zi68q03a

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Yan-Ting Wu, M.D. 1 Therefore, consideration of termination of pregnancy has to be individualized during this COVID-19 outbreak. For pregnant patients with mild symptoms, treatment should be modified to avoid using teratogenic drugs near the fetus. Patients are commonly at higher oxygen demand during early pregnancy, so hypoxemia should be monitored, and interventions should be provided without delay. For severe patients during early pregnancy, the first priority is to ensure maternal safety. Decisions of early pregnancy termination should be considered upon risk factors including viral load, transmission generations, range of lung lesions by CT (more than two lobes), maternal age, and coexisting disorders (diabetes, cardiovascular diseases etc.).

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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He-feng Huang put forward the initial ideas and opinions, which were drafted by Yanting Wu, Cheng Li, and Chen-jie Zhang.

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