Introduction:

A decade ago, at the Institute of Hematology and Immunology, treatment of women with recurrent pregnancy losses due to hypercoagulability disorders began.

Objective:

Clinically characterize these infants and identify the adverse effects of thromboprophylactic therapy in newborns.

Methods:

A descriptive and transversal study was carried out between January 2014 and August 2017, which included 62 children of mothers with a diagnosis of thrombophilia who used during pregnancy, a thromboprophylaxis regimen with low molecular weight heparins and aspirin. All pregnant women were systematically evaluated in the Hemostasis and Obstetrics consultations of the Institute of Hematology and Immunology and Hospital Enrique Cabrera.

Results:

The majority of the neonates were born at term, with normal apgar and weights above 2,500 g. 82.3% of pregnant women started thromboprophylaxis with less than 5 weeks of gestational age. There were significant differences when the weights of the infants of the mothers who started the treatment early were compared with those who started it late. The type of thrombophilia and maternal age did not influence the weights of the neonates, but those cases with more severe symptoms had children of lower weight, which although it was not significant, requires observation. No newborn presented side effects to thromboprophylactic therapy.

Conclusions:

Infants born to mothers with thrombophilia who started thromboprophylaxis early were not different from those born to mothers without hypercoagulability.

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