Maternal and peri-natal outcomes of dengue fever with special emphasis on vertical transmission Authors Saima Naz Pakistan Health Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan Farkhanda Ghafoor Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan Shafqat Mukhtar Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex, Lahore, Pakistan Tayyaba Rahat Pakistan Health Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan DOI: https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.1488 Abstract Objectives: To investigate the maternal and peri-natal outcomes of dengue infection and frequency of dengue immunoglobulin G positivity in pregnant women along with pregnancy outcomes. Method: The observational two-phase study was conducted from 2012 to 2015 in Lahore, Pakistan. I In phase 1, pregnant women who had acute dengue fever were prospectively and retrospectively enrolled from 4 tertiary care hospitals. Demographic data, clinical/laboratory parameters and maternal/foetal outcomes were recorded for each subject. In the second phase, normal pregnant women with no current or past history of dengue fever were enrolled from Gynaecology Department of Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore, to determine the frequency of dengue immunoglobulin G positivity and pregnancy outcome. Data was analysed using SPSS 20. ---Continue Author Biographies Saima Naz, Pakistan Health Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan Research officer Pakistan Health Research Council, Head office, Islamabad, Pakistan Farkhanda Ghafoor, Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan Ex Principal Research officer National Health Research Complex Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex, Lahore, Pakistan Shafqat Mukhtar, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex, Lahore, Pakistan Senior Registrar Department of Gynae and Obs, Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex, Lahore, Pakistan Downloads Full Text Article Published 2022-04-05 How to Cite Naz, S. . ., Ghafoor, F. ., Mukhtar, S., & Tayyaba Rahat. (2022). Maternal and peri-natal outcomes of dengue fever with special emphasis on vertical transmission. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 72(4), 658–6443. https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.1488 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 72 No. 4 (2022): APRIL Section ORIGINAL ARTICLE