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Publicly Available Published by De Gruyter December 9, 2021

COVID-19 infected pregnant women and cardiotocographic features

  • Pathum Sookaromdee EMAIL logo and Viroj Wiwanitkit

To the Editor,

We would like to share ideas on “Cardiotocographic features in COVID-19 infected pregnant women [1].” Sinaci et al. proposed that “Maternal COVID-19 infection can cause changes that can be observed inin the baseline is the most obvious change [1].” In this study, “CTG traces were observed comparing the hospital admission with the third day of positivity.” This finding is contrast to a previous study that the change was associated with cytokine storm in mother [2]. The observed CTG in this report might or might not reflect effect of COVID-19. Without previous data of CTG before infection, it is hard to finally conclude that clinical association. In addition, it is difficult to clarify the exact data of infection since different case might be admitted at different day of infection and the first detection, positivity, might also be different.


Corresponding author: Pathum Sookaromdee, Private Academic Consultant, Bangkok, Thailand, E-mail:

  1. Research funding: None declared.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Not applicable.

  5. Ethical approval: Not applicable.

References

1. Sinaci, S, Ocal, DF, Ozden Tokalioglu, E, Halici Ozturk, F, Aydin Senel, S, Keskin, LH, et al.. Cardiotocographic features in COVID-19 infected pregnant women. J Perinat Med 2022;50:46–55. https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2021-0132.Search in Google Scholar PubMed

2. Gracia-Perez-Bonfils, A, Martinez-Perez, O, Llurba, E, Chandraharan, E. Fetal heart rate changes on the cardiotocograph trace secondary to maternal COVID-19 infection. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2020;252:286–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2020.06.049.Search in Google Scholar PubMed PubMed Central

Received: 2021-08-19
Accepted: 2021-11-24
Published Online: 2021-12-09
Published in Print: 2022-02-23

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