Pregnant women particularly need an individualised approach of Covid management, involving a team of infectious disease specialists, obstetricians, anaesthetists and neonatologists.
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Most pregnancies end in healthy outcomes, but some pregnancies suffer from early complications.
This may be a miscarriage, an ectopic pregnancy (pregnancy outside the womb), pregnancy of unknown location or gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD).
Miscarriage is the most common complication of early pregnancy. Among women who know they are pregnant, the miscarriage rate is roughly 10-20 per cent.
The reasons why a patient would miscarry can be various: It may be due to advanced maternal age (above 35 years old); poorly controlled endocrinological disorders such as diabetes and thyroid disorders; infections before or after conceiving (eg toxoplasma, rubella, cytomegalovirus); patients diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome, antiphospholipid antibodies syndrome or a couple with genetic disorders; and getting pregnant with a foetus carrying a chromosomal