COVID-19 in pregnancy

¹ Department of Surgery, Medicine, Dentistry and Morphological Sciences with Interest in Transplantation, Oncology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, MO 41124 Modena, Italy

^*Correspondence: luca.roncati@unimore.it; roncati.luca@aou.mo.it; emailmedical@gmail.com (Luca Roncati)

Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2021, 48(4), 778–780; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog4804124

Submitted: 16 June 2021 | Revised: 4 July 2021 | Accepted: 9 July 2021 | Published: 15 August 2021

This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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The immune system during a healthy pregnancy is T ${}_{\bm{h}}$ 2 polarized, a default defense that makes the pregnant woman more vulnerable to severe SARS-CoV-2 infection. Moreover, the interaction between the spike protein and ACE2/sACE2 creates an imbalance towards A2, which higher risk to develop preeclampsia/eclampsia [the 3D illustration of SARS-CoV-2 has been drawn by Alissa Eckert, MS, and Dan Higgins, MAM, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, placed in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions].

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