Analysis of Pregnancy, Labor and Perinatal Outcomes of Women Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection

Abstract

Purpose: To estimate the influence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection on pregnancy, childbirth and neonatal status.Materials and Methods: In total, 54 pregnant women infected with HIV-infection (study group). Comparison group consisted of 124 apparently healthy women with physiological pregnancy. In the groups evaluated parity, clinical and laboratory parameters of blood (blood count, hematocrit, leukocyte index of intoxication), during pregnancy, birth, state of newborn babies and their incidence.Results: Pregnancy in HIV infection more severe with various complications: anemia, placental insufficiency and preeclampsia. The frequency postnatal of new complications in parturients infected with HIV, is significantly higher, significantly more children are born with perinatal diseases mainly due to slowing growth and fetal malnutrition and disorders related to shortening the duration of pregnancy and low birth weight.Summary: HIV infection is one of the factors influencing the course of pregnancy and the development of perinatal pathology in infants. Combination of HIV with other specific infectious diseases and / or chronic pyelonephritis does not increase the frequency of perinatal pathology in infants.

Keywords

• hiv infection
• pregnancy
• childbirth
• perinatal outcomes