title: [Influenza and pregnancy].
abstract: Benign flu should be differentiated from malignant flu often complicated with pulmonary diseases, which resulted, during the severe epidemics of 1918 and 1957, in a marked mortality in pregnant women, mortality which markedly decreased with the use of modern antibiotics and assisted ventilation. The effect on the fetus and the newborn is real, since abortions, premature deliveries, intrauterine growth delays, are not unusual in severe forms of flu, which could, for some authors, induce the occurrence of fetal malformations; but this is not quite confirmed. Therefore, passage of the virus from the mother to the fetus seems real. But the subsequent occurrence of neoplasia, especially leukemia, reported in some studies, appears costly. Anti-flu vaccination is recommended in pregnant women, especially those with chronic pulmonary diseases, or in case of epidemics.
authors.affiliation: Clinique Gynécologique et Obstétricale à la Faculté de Medecine de Lyon, Caluire.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dumont
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007252:Influenza Vaccines; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
chemical_list: D007252:Influenza Vaccines
vernacular_title: Grippe et grossesse.