Pregnancy Outcomes Not Marred by 2009 Flu Pandemic
Thursday, September 01, 2011
 
Elsevier Global Medical News
 
BY PATRICE WENDLING
 
CHICAGO (EGMN) –H1N1 influenza infection during the 2009 pandemic did not impact pregnancy outcomes in a retrospective cohort study of 887 women.

Subtle differences were observed, however, among women with severe infection or delayed treatment, Dr. Amber Naresh reported at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology.

She presented a retrospective cohort study performed at three tertiary care medical centers of all inpatient and outpatient cases of pregnant women with laboratory-confirmed 2009 H1N1 influenza. For each case, five pregnant women who tested negative for H1N1 influenza or were untested were randomly chosen from each site’s database and matched by estimated date of confinement and site.