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BLOOD ELEMENTS PROFILE IN A SAMPLE OF IRAQI PREGNANT WOMEN TAKING ANTICOAGULANT TREATMENT BEFORE INFECTION WITH COVID-19 VIRUS

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Abd Al- jabbar Falih Al-Rubai, Nibras Hatim Khamees, Lina A. Salih, Samia A. Eleiwe, Aeshah Makttoof Karnti Al-Khafaji, Nuha Abdulmunem Ajel Al –Sabbagh, Suad Makttoof Karnti Al-Khafaji
» doi: 10.48047/AFJBS.6.Si4.2024.5284-5291

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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and outbreaks have occurred worldwide, and Iraq was one of the affected total countries. Laboratory test results are an important basis for clinicians to determine patient condition and formulate treatment plans worldwide. Patients and Methods: This study comprised 150 Iraqi pregnant women at 3rd trimester, who were improved clinically to have COVID-19 infection and were already taking anticoagulant medications for treating another conditions during their pregnancies, concomitantly before and during COVID-19 course of infection. The ongoing study included 450 laboratory test results, as three test values for each pregnant patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 and non- hospitalized but rather were treated at home since there were no indications for admission to inpatient department at specialized governmental hospitals, because in Iraq, at that time, all the severely affected patients were admitted exclusively to COVID-19 specialized governmental hospitals, and not to any other hospitals whether it was governmental or private hospitals, never the less, the affected patients who were having mild or moderate infections with COVID-19, they were possibly treated at home, private clinic, or even as outer patients at governmental or private hospitals. These cases were regarded as mild or moderate cases or even sub clinical cases that’s to say; they were diagnosed by laboratory tests only. This study was done between 1st of January 2020 to 1st of January 2021, at Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Al- Khadraa' Private hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.

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