ROSSANA PULCINELI VIEIRA FRANCISCO
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Departamento de Obstetrícia e Ginecologia, Faculdade de Medicina - Docente
Instituto Central, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
LIM/57 - Laboratório de Fisiologia Obstétrica, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Líder
Instituto Central, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
LIM/57 - Laboratório de Fisiologia Obstétrica, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Líder
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- Prevalence of oncogenic human papillomavirus in pregnant adolescents, association with colpocytological changes, risk factors and obstetric outcomes(2022) SOUZA, Henrique Diorio de; WAISSMAN, Adriana Lippi; DIORIO, Giselle Rodrigues Mota; PERES, Stela Verzinhasse; FRANCISCO, Rossana Pulcineli Vieira; GALLETTA, Marco Aurelio KnippelPurpose: The authors aim to carry out an investigation on the impact of cervical oncogenic Human Papillomavirus (HPV) detection in pregnant adolescents, to clarify the prevalence and risk factors, considering the importance and lack of data on this topic in Brazil. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with adolescents receiving prenatal care in a tertiary hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with routine Pap smear and oncogenic HPV detection test in the uterine cervix. The authors sought to associate the results of these tests with demographic and obstetric variables. Results: A total of 303 pregnant adolescents whose mean age was 15.30 +/- 1.22 years comprised the study subjects. The frequency of high-risk HPV cervical detection was 50.50%. Multivariate analysis revealed that a large number of partners in their lifetime (OR = 1.27) and having a religion (OR = 2.05) were risk factors for cervical detection of oncogenic HPV, while schooling appeared as a protective factor (OR = 0.85). There was an association between this detection and colpocytological alterations, reaching almost 30% of patients, but without association with obstetric and neonatal outcomes. Conclusion: The prevalence found is one of the highest in Brazil and worldwide. A greater number of partners during their lifetime and having religion were detected as possible factors associated with cervical HPV detection. Detection of cervical HPV-DNA did not influence obstetric and neonatal outcomes. The findings of this study reinforce the need to implement educational measures capable of modifying the incidence of sexually transmitted infections in this population and capable of promoting adherence to HPV vaccination programs.
- Expert Recommendations on Monkeypox (MPX) in Pregnancy, Postpartum and Lactating Women(2022) MATTAR, Rosiane; NETO, Antonio Rodrigues Braga; LUZ, Adriana Gomes; HATANAKA, Alan; ZACONETA, Alberto; GUAZZELLI, Cristina Aparecida Falbo; TRAINA, Evelyn; BAPTISTA, Fernanda Spadotto; OSANAN, Gabriel; DUARTE, Geraldo; RAMOS, Jose Geraldo Lopes; OPPERMANN, Maria Lucia; FRANCISCO, Rossana Pulcineli Vieira; CARDOSO, Sigrid Maria Loureiro de Queiroz; QUINTANA, Silvana Maria; SUN, Sue Yazaki; BORGES, Vera Therezinha Medeiros
- The Influenza Vaccine May Protect Pregnant and Postpartum Women against Severe COVID-19(2022) PAGANOTI, Cristiane de Freitas; RODRIGUES, Agatha Sacramento; FRANCISCO, Rossana Pulcineli Vieira; COSTA, Rafaela Alkmin daThe SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has imposed a huge challenge on the antenatal care of pregnant women worldwide, with the maternal mortality rate being raised to alarming levels. While COVID-19 vaccines were developed, some studies highlighted a possible relationship between influenza vaccination and lower odds of COVID-19 infection. As obstetric patients belong to a high-risk group for respiratory diseases, this study evaluated whether influenza vaccination reduces the severity of COVID-19 infection and mortality among pregnant and postpartum women. We conducted a retrospective cohort study on 3370 pregnant and postpartum women from the Brazilian national database, where they were grouped according to their influenza vaccination status before the onset of COVID-19 symptoms. The intensive care unit admission and intubation rates were significantly higher among subjects in the unvaccinated group (p = 0.002 and p < 0.001, respectively). The odds of mortality risk among those who received the vaccine was 0.33, with a 95% confidence interval of 0.23-0.47. The numbers of patients who needed to be vaccinated to avoid a case of intensive care unit admission, intubation, or death due to COVID-19 were 11, 15, and 11, respectively. Influenza vaccines could confer protection against severe COVID-19 infection in pregnant and postpartum women.
- COVID-19 Vaccines Confer Protection in Hospitalized Pregnant and Postpartum Women with Severe COVID-19: A Retrospective Cohort Study(2022) PAGANOTI, Cristiane de Freitas; COSTA, Rafaela Alkmin da; PAPAGEORGHIOU, Aris T.; COSTA, Fabricio da Silva; QUINTANA, Silvana Maria; GODOI, Luciana Graziela de; MONROY, Nataly Adriana Jimenez; RODRIGUES, Agatha Sacramento; FRANCISCO, Rossana Pulcineli VieiraThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had deleterious effects among the obstetric population. Pregnant and postpartum women constitute a high-risk group for severe COVID-19. Vaccination reduces the risk of infection, but it is not known whether women who become infected despite vaccination have a milder course of disease than those who had not been vaccinated. This retrospective cohort study evaluated whether vaccination reduces the severity of COVID-19 infection, as measured by severe maternal morbidity and mortality among hospitalized pregnant and postpartum individuals. A total of 2284 pregnant and postpartum women hospitalized with severe COVID-19 were included. Those who did and who did not receive COVID-19 vaccination were compared. The rates of intensive care unit admission, intubation, and mortality were significantly lower among subjects in the vaccinated group (p < 0.001, p < 0.001 and p < 0.001, respectively). The numbers of patients who needed to be vaccinated to avoid one case of intensive care unit admission, intubation, or death due to COVID-19 were 7, 7, and 9, respectively. The COVID-19 vaccine offers protective effects against intensive care unit admission, intubation, and death in hospitalized pregnant and postpartum women with severe SARS-CoV-2-induced SARS.
- Demographic and epidemiological characteristics of pregnant and postpartum women who died from severe acute respiratory syndrome in Brazil: A retrospective cohort study comparing COVID-19 and nonspecific etiologic causes(2022) FRANCO, Veridiana Freire; RODRIGUES, Agatha Sacramento; ROSA JUNIOR, Elias Ribeiro; GODOI, Luciana Graziela de; MONROY, Nataly Adriana Jimenez; COSTA, Rafaela Alkmin da; FRANCISCO, Rossana Pulcineli VieiraThe objective of this study is to compare the demographic characteristics and symptoms in pregnant and postpartum women who died from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) caused by COVID-19 or by nonspecific cause in different states of Brazil. This is a retrospective cohort study and the analysis was conducted on SARS death records between 02/16/2020 and 04/17/2021, obtained from the Information System for the Epidemiological Surveillance of Influenza (Sistema de Informacao da Vigilancia Epidemiologica da Gripe, SIVEP-Gripe). Pregnant and postpartum women, aged between 10 and 55 years, who died from SARS, were included and classified into two groups: SARS due to confirmed COVID-19 or SARS due to nonspecific cause. The cases were analyzed according to the women's demographic and epidemiological characteristics, clinical symptoms, risk factors and disease evolution. As results, 19,333 pregnant and postpartum women were identified. From these, 1,279 died (1,026 deaths from COVID-19 and 253 deaths from SARS with nonspecific cause). The groups showed significant differences in age, education, race, and occurrence of obesity and chronic lung disease. The group of women who died from confirmed COVID-19 presented a significantly higher frequency of symptoms of fever, cough, fatigue, loss of taste, and loss of smell, as well as a higher rate of admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). Data analysis draws attention to the high number of cases of SARS without a causal diagnosis, the low access to ICU and orotracheal intubation (OTI), which might be explained by the demographic and regional inequalities in the access to healthcare.
- COVID-19: Impact of Original, Gamma, Delta, and Omicron Variants of SARS-CoV-2 in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Pregnant and Postpartum Women(2022) SERRA, Fabiano Elisei; ROSA JUNIOR, Elias Ribeiro; ROSSI, Patricia de; FRANCISCO, Rossana Pulcineli Vieira; RODRIGUES, Agatha SacramentoThis study compares the clinical characteristics and disease progression among vaccinated and unvaccinated pregnant and postpartum women who tested positive for different variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) using the Brazilian epidemiological data. Data of pregnant or postpartum patients testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 and presenting with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from February 2020 to July 2022 were extracted from Brazilian national database. The patients were grouped based on vaccination status and viral variant (original, Gamma, Delta, and Omicron variants), and their demographics, clinical characteristics, comorbidities, symptoms, and outcomes were compared retrospectively. Data of 10,003 pregnant and 2361 postpartum women were extracted from the database. For unvaccinated postpartum women, intensive care unit (ICU) admission was more likely; invasive ventilation need was more probable if they tested positive for the original, Gamma, and Omicron variants; and chances of death were higher when infected with the original and Gamma variants than when infected with other variants. Vaccinated patients had reduced adverse outcome probability, including ICU admission, invasive ventilation requirement, and death. Postpartum women showed worse outcomes, particularly when unvaccinated, than pregnant women. Hence, vaccination of pregnant and postpartum women should be given top priority.
- Post-Viral Fatigue Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection during Pregnancy: A Longitudinal Comparative Study(2022) OLIVEIRA, Ana Maria da Silva Sousa; CARVALHO, Mariana Azevedo; NACUL, Luis; CABAR, Fabio Roberto; FABRI, Amanda Wictky; PERES, Stela Verzinhasse; ZACCARA, Tatiana Assuncao; O'BOYLE, Shennae; ALEXANDER, Neal; TAKIUTI, Nilton Hideto; MAYAUD, Philippe; BRIZOT, Maria de Lourdes; FRANCISCO, Rossana Pulcineli VieiraStudies reported post-COVID-19 fatigue in the general population, but not among pregnant women. Our objectives were to determine prevalence, duration, and risk factors of post-viral fatigue among pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2. This study involved 588 pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy or delivery in Brazil. Three groups were investigated: G1 (n = 259, symptomatic infection during pregnancy); G2 (n = 131, positive serology at delivery); G3 (n = 198, negative serology at delivery). We applied questionnaires investigating fatigue at determined timepoints after infection for G1, and after delivery for all groups; fatigue prevalence was then determined. Cox regression was used to estimate hazard ratio (HR) and 95% CI of the risk of remaining with fatigue in G1. Overall fatigue prevalence in G1 at six weeks, three months and six months were 40.6%, 33.6%, and 27.8%, respectively. Cumulative risk of remaining with fatigue increased over time, with HR of 1.69 (95% CI: 0.89-3.20) and 2.43 (95% CI: 1.49-3.95) for women with moderate and severe symptoms, respectively. Multivariate analysis showed cough and myalgia as independent risk factors in G1. Fatigue prevalence was significantly higher in G1 compared to G2 and G3. Post-viral fatigue prevalence is higher in women infected during pregnancy; fatigue's risk and duration increased with the severity of infection.
- The Effect of Being Pregnant during Respiratory Pandemics: A Comparison between 2009/10 Flu and 2020/21 COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil(2022) ZANON, Ana Beatrice Bonganha; ROSA JUNIOR, Elias Ribeiro; MONROY, Nataly Adriana Jimenez; GODOI, Luciana Graziela de; MATTOS, Bruna Rodrigues de; PAGANOTI, Cristiane de Freitas; FRANCISCO, Rossana Pulcineli Vieira; RODRIGUES, Agatha Sacramento; COSTA, Rafaela Alkmin daPregnant women undergo physiological changes that make them a challenging group of patients during pandemic respiratory diseases, as previously found during H1N1 2009 pandemic and recently ratified in COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis on 5888 hospitalized women for H1N1 flu pandemic (2190 pregnant and 3698 non-pregnant) and 64,515 hospitalized women for COVID-19 pandemic (5151 pregnant and 59,364 non-pregnant), from the Brazilian national database, to compare demographic profile, clinical aspects, and mortality in childbearing aged women during both pandemics. Additionally, the effect of being pregnant was compared between both pandemics. In both pandemics, pregnant women were younger than non-pregnant women. Overall, pregnant women had lower frequencies of comorbidities and were less symptomatic. Among hospitalized women, pregnant women presented lower mortality rates than non-pregnant women (9.7% vs. 12.6%, p = 0.002 in the H1N1 pandemic and 9.7% vs. 17.4%, p < 0.001 in the COVID-19 pandemic) and this difference was statistically more pronounced in the COVID-19 pandemic, even after balancing pregnant and non-pregnant groups regarding age and chronic diseases.
- Demographic, Clinical, and Obstetrical Characterization of Women with Hyperemesis Gravidarum Using a More Restrictive Diagnosis(2022) GALLETTA, Marco Aurelio Knippel; DEMO, Mayra de Oliveira; PINTO, Ana Luiza Tonisi; FRANCISCO, Rossana Pulcineli Vieira; ZUGAIB, MarceloBackground: Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a disease that occurs during pregnancy. It is relatively rare (0.3-3.6%), but with great potential for complications. Its diagnostic criteria still lack consensus, and most studies only establish the presence of uncontrollable vomiting, requiring hospitalization. The present study aimed to investigate its epidemiological profile and maternal and neonatal outcomes in a series of cases with more restrictive diagnostic criteria. Methods: A retrospective analysis of all cases admitted with a diagnosis of HG, according to more restrictive service criteria, was performed with a review of medical records and laboratory tests in a Brazilian university hospital. Results: HG was confirmed in 85 cases (0.39% incidence). The most frequent early symptoms included a weight loss >= 5% (94.4%) or >= 10% (63.9%), dehydration (76.5%), hyponatremia (49.4%), hypokalemia (40.5%), increased liver enzymes (46.4%), and transient hyperthyroidism (38.6%). Enteral nutrition was used in 7.1% of the patients, and parenteral nutrition in 1.2%. A large majority of patients was provided with a prescription of more than one drug, and the most used drugs were dimenhydrinate (87.1%), metoclopramide (85.9%), and ondansetron (38.8%). The average length of hospital stay was 15 days (1-145 days). Childbirth data were obtained from 40 patients, with 60% of births being cesarean deliveries, 35.3% premature births, 32% with low birth weight, and 7.5% stillbirths, with 12.5% of cases having postpartum complications. The overall rate for clinical complications was 30.5%. Conclusions: With well-defined and more restrictive criteria, we observed a high rate of obstetric and neonatal complications compared to international data. Thus, a correct diagnosis is essential for identifying this serious condition and to allow earlier treatment, reducing clinical, obstetric, and neonatal complications.
- Gestational age acceleration is associated with epigenetic biomarkers of prenatal physiologic stress exposure(2022) EUCLYDES, Veronica; GOMES, Catarina; GOUVEIA, Gisele; GASTALDI, Vinicius Daguano; FELTRIN, Arthur Sant'Anna; CAMILO, Caroline; VIEIRA, Rossana Pulcineli; FELIPE-SILVA, Aloisio; GRISI, Sandra; FINK, Gunther; BRENTANI, Alexandra; BRENTANI, HelenaBackground Physiological maternal stress response, such as imbalance in the glucocorticoid pathway and immune system seems to be mediated by DNA methylation (DNAm) and might translate intrauterine stress exposures into phenotypic changes in a sex-specific manner. DNAm in specific sites can also predict newborn gestational age and gestational age acceleration (GAA). GAA occurs when the predicted biological age is higher than the chronological age. In adults, poor health outcomes related to this deviance are well documented and raise questions for the interpretation and prediction in early stages of life. Boys seem to be more vulnerable to intrauterine stress exposure than girls; however, the mechanisms of adaptive sex-specific responses are still unclear. We hypothesize that intrauterine stress exposure is associated with GAA and could be different in boys and girls if inflammatory or glucocorticoid pathways exposure is considered. Results Using the Western Region Birth Cohort (ROC-Sao Paulo, Brazil) (n = 83), we calculated DNAm age and GAA from cord blood samples. Two epigenetic risk scores were calculated as an indirect proxy for low-grade inflammation (i-ePGS) and for glucocorticoid exposure (GES). Multivariate linear regression models were applied to investigate associations of GAA with prenatal exposures. The i-ePGS and GES were included in different models with the same co-variates considering sex interactions. The first multivariate model investigating inflammatory exposure (adj. R-2 = 0.31, p = < 0.001) showed that GAA was positively associated with i-ePGS (CI, 0.26-113.87, p = 0.049) and negative pregnancy-related feelings (CI, 0.04-0.48 p = 0.019). No sex interaction was observed. The second model investigating glucocorticoid exposure (adj. R-2 = 0.32, p = < 0.001) showed that the higher was the GAA was associated with a lower the lower was the GES in girls (CI, 0.04-2.55, p = 0.044). In both models, maternal self-reported mental disorder was negatively associated with GAA. Conclusion Prenatal epigenetic score of exposure to low-grade inflammatory was a predictor of GAA for both sexes. Glucocorticoid epigenetic score seems to be more important to GAA in girls. This study supports the evidence of sex-specificity in stress response, suggesting the glucocorticoid as a possible pathway adopted by girls to accelerate the maturation in an adverse condition.