COMPARISON OF LABORATORY FINDINGS OF PREGNANT AND NON-PREGNANT WOMEN WITH COVID-19 INFECTION IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus. Anyone can contract this viral illness and may need emergency care at any age. In general, Covid-19 patients who are pregnant do not appear to have severe symptoms than non-pregnant women. But sometimes they are likely to become seriously ill than non-pregnant women. The danger particularly increases during the third trimester .Preterm births have been reported .Pregnant women (PWs) have different laboratory findings from non-pregnant women (NPWs). Many of the physiological adaptations of pregnancy can be mistaken as pathological, or they may conceal the identification of a disease condition if these are not taken into consideration when analyzing the laboratory results of PWs . The mean leucocyte count in PW was higher when compared to the mean leucocyte count of NPW. We found a significant difference in mean lymphocyte count between PW and NPW [ 24.47±15.52 vs 33.10±13.60] and mean platelet lymphocyte ratio[0.0005]. Among pregnant COVID-19 women, CRP and ferritin were the inflammatory markers that were mostly associated with disease severity but both showed no difference in our study. We had leucocytosis in addition. Conclusion Though the laboratory findings may differ between pregnant and non-pregnant women, we found that pregnancy had no impact on laboratory results during the COVID-19 infection period.