Pregnancy outcomes in women with human immunodeficiency virus infection

Abstract

Introduction: Since the appearance of the first cases of human immunodeficiency virus infection, a great improvement in its treatment and control has been achieved, turning it into a chronic disease. This also occurs in the treatment and monitoring of pregnant women who carry the virus, who also pass on the disease to their children less frequently. In this study the monitoring and results of the pregnancy of women who carry the infection and are monitored in the University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves in Granada were analysed. Methods: To this end, the medical records of the women who met these requirements were collected, and the variables that affect the control of the infection and its transmission to the child were studied. The cases with mother-to-child transmission and the ones in which the mother were infected perinatally were studied more thoroughly. Outcomes: The results obtained are favourable when it comes to the control of the HIV infection of these patients, especially after the introduction of the zidovudine as a prophylaxis during labour. There have not been any new cases of mother-to-child transmission since 1997. Conclusions: Pregnancies in women with human immunodeficiency virus infection were managed efficiently with good outcomes in general, and most of the women gave birth seronegative children.