Volume 25, Issue 114, August 2021

Fatal HELLP syndrome in pregnancy: A sequelae of Long COVID?

Ojas Mahajan¹, Dhruv Talwar^1♦, Sunil Kumar², Arpita Jaiswal³, Sparsh Madaan⁴, Shivam Khanna¹, Divit Shah¹

¹Post Graduate Resident, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Deemed to be university), Maharastra, India
²Professor, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Deemed to be university), Maharastra, India
³Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Deemed to be university), Maharastra, India
⁴Post Graduate Resident, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Deemed to be university), Maharastra, India

^♦Corresponding author
Post Graduate Resident, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Deemed to be university), Maharastra, India

ABSTRACT

The coronavirus disease resulted by infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome-Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was initiated in China in during the end of 2019 and spread exponentially as a global health Pandemic. The current pandemic (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus lead to high mortality and morbidity in terminally ill patients. We present a link between maternal severe acute respiratory syndrome-Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in the peripartum period and rapid maternal deterioration with coagulopathy. Also, we wish to draw attention towards the overlap which is significant between the clinical findings of COVID19 and HELLP Syndrome along with importance of persistence of inflammation over 3 months after COVID19 known as “Long COVID”.

Keywords: Pregnancy, HELLP Syndrome, COVID -19

Medical Science, 2021, 25(114), 1878-1881

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