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  • Title: [HIV and pregnancy].
    Author: Rudin C, Camli C, Schnüriger H, Biedermann K, Lauper U, Kind C.
    Journal: Schweiz Med Wochenschr; 1995 Dec 02; 125(48):2322-9. PubMed ID: 8539580.
    Abstract:
    Since 1990 216 HIV-infected pregnant women have been enrolled in an ongoing nationwide study named "HIV and Pregnancy" financed by the Swiss Federal Office of Health (No. 90-7007 and 93-7131). Of a total of 228 recorded pregnancies 154 continued to parturition. Until now it has been definitively established whether or not 89 offsprings have been infected with HIV by their mothers. According to clinical and immunological findings most of the pregnant women are still in early, stable stages of HIV-infection (stages II and III of the CDC classification system in 94% of the subjects; mean CD4-cell count around 600/microliters). HIV infection was the consequence of an intravenous substance abuse in two thirds of the women. Detailed interviews revealed an alarming negligence with regard to compliance with safer sex recommendations and contraception. Advisory services of specialized AIDS information centers have very rarely been called on. In our group, the vertical transmission rate shows a statistically significant correlation with low maternal anti-HIV-p24 antibody titers, high serum neopterin- and IgA-concentrations, and also with the use of forceps and vacuum in vaginal delivery. Maternal substance abuse but not HIV infection itself resulted in an incidence of preterm deliveries roughly twice as high as in the normal Swiss population.
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