Objectives
The purpose the study is to perform a review of the literature on the international experience of the COVID‐19 pandemic and pregnancy in northen hemisphere outbreak in preparing of the arrival in South America.
Methods
A search of the PubMed database (Public MEDLINE), expanded for the keywords pregnancy / pregnant / novel coronavirus / SARS‐COVID‐2 / COVID‐19, is performed from November 2019 to May 21, 2020.
Results
A total of 365 articles were initially selected according to the search strategy designed. The total of articles selected according to the criteria were 42. A total of 1098 pregnant women and COVID‐19 disease were analysed. The reported complications occur mainly in the third trimester and the delivery route was more than 50% Caesarean section in most of the studies. The most frequent co‐morbidities were hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity and asthma. Mortality in relation to total was 1.2% and vertical transmission of 1.7% (15 of 875).
Conclusions
The information obtained allows us to infer that the clinical presentation of the disease is at least equivalent to that of women of the same age. A mortality of 1.2% of published cases and vertical transmission of 2%.
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