Effect of complete blood count parameters on the clinical course of COVID-19 in pregnant women

Authors : Zehra YILMAZ, Huri GÜVEY, Samettin ÇELİK, Canan SOYER ÇALIŞKAN

Pages : 409-413

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Publication Date : 2022-03-18

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Objective: Coronovirus Disease-19 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(COVID-19); pandemic, affected pregnant women as well as many people. Aim of this study is to compare complete blood count insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(CBC); parameters of pregnant women infected with COVID-19 to that of healthy pregnant women and determine their prognostic features. Materials and methods: 142 pregnant women infected with COVID-19 and 46 healthy pregnant women, included in this retrospective case-control study. Patients infected with COVID-19 were grouped as mild, moderate and severe, according to the findings of oxygen saturation and lung involvement. Age, gestational age, gravida, hospitalization length and CBC parameters of the participants were compared, according to the groups. Results: CBC test revealed that uninfected pregnant women had statistically lower level of white blood cell count insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(WBC, p=0.001);, platelet count insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p=0,024);, neutrophil count insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p=0,001);, lymphocytes insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p=0,005);, monocytes insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p=0,001); and platelecrit insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p=0.007); than from infected pregnant women. Evaluation of pregnant women with COVID-19 grouped into 3 categories as mild, moderate and severe showed that age, gravida and hospitalization length were comparable between groups, WBC insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p=0.012); and neutrophile insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p=0.001); counts of mild group were significantly lower than moderate group and there was no significant difference between moderate and severe groups regarding WBC and neutrophile counts insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(respectively p=0,281, p=0.542);. Conclusion: CBC analysis is simple, applicable, widely used and cheap laboratory method. CBC parameters seem as a candidate for predicting COVID-19 clinical course. However, larger sample sized prospective studies supporting this idea are required.
Keywords : COVID 19, pregnancy, complete blood count, disease severity

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