Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus 2 in Pregnancy: A Case Report

Abstract

A really new and complex illness, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2), has had a devastating influence on many people's life, including pregnant women. We present a 34-year-old woman who is 35 weeks pregnant and has SARS-COV-2 who required an urgent cesarean delivery under general anesthesia and a protracted postoperative stay in the intensive care unit due to the disease's various end organ function abnormalities. Though most pregnant patients manifest with a milder form of the disease and do not require either hospitalization or ICU admission, our patient with the associated comorbidities of pregestational diabetes and obesity did show severe respiratory insufficiency requiring prolonged hospitalization and ICU admission. She was sent home after almost a month of treatment. After 5 days, she was able to bring her infant home without any signs of SARS-COV-2.