BACKGROUND:

The worldwide SARS-CoV-2 pandemic also affects pregnant women. The most severe cases require hospitalization and treatment in an intensive care unit.

CLINICAL CASE:

A 30-year-old woman with a 33-week singleton pregnancy and a history of fibromyalgia, one miscarriage and uterine myomatosis. The patient denied contact with persons suspected or infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus. The clinical picture began with upper respiratory tract infection that progressed to pneumonia with positive PCR test for COVID-19 from nasopharyngeal exudate, which led to severe acute respiratory failure syndrome, treated with mechanical ventilation for 16 days in the Intensive Care Unit. During hospitalization, she was complicated with bilateral pneumothorax and urosepsis due to Candida tropicalis. The patient overcame the viral disease, ventilatory complications and the opportunistic urinary tract infection.

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