Covid-19 Maternal Mortality in Abu Dhabi and the Northern Emirates and a
review of all described maternal mortalities
- Ghalia Ashoor,
- Juan Acuna,
- Saleema Wani,
- Tarek Ansari,
- Sally El Deeb,
- Jane Kelly,
- Paul Bosio
Juan Acuna
Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research
Author ProfileAbstract
The case fatality rate of Covid-19 in pregnancies published so far
varies significantly. In our cohort of 515 women we had 3 maternal
deaths due to three varying pathologies related to Covid-19. Our first
case died due severe ARDS and a superimposed Pneumothorax, our second
case the main cause of death was Septic shock and our third case
developed Covid-19 encephalitis that resulted in brain death. There is
currently only 10 maternal mortality cases described in detail in the
literature. All our 3 cases were of South Asian origin, 2 of which had a
BMI above 35.