English: CMV in Pregnancy

<p>Disclaimer:<br> The  views and  opinions&nbspexpressed during this podcast are those of the physicians participating and do not necessarily reflect the position of the SOGC.</p> <p>In this episode, our host Dr. Graeme Smith talks to Dr. Isabelle Boucoiran about cytomegalovirus (CMV) in pregnancy. CMV is a common virus that rarely causes problems in healthy people. However, a pregnant individual infected with CMV can pass it to their developing baby. This is called congenital CMV, and it can cause birth defects and other health problems.</p> <p><strong>Additional Resources</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.jogc.com/article/S1701-2163(21)00445-X/fulltext" target="_blank">SOGC Clinical Practice Guideline: Cytomegalovirus Infection in Pregnancy</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.pregnancyinfo.ca/resources/your-pregnancy/#special-considerations-2" target="_blank">If You're Pregnant, Ask your Doctor about CMV – Infographic</a></li> <li><a href="https://sogc.org/" target="_blank">SOGC website</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>About Dr. Isabelle Boucoiran</strong></p> <p>Dr. Isabelle Boucoiran is Clinical Associate Professor at Université de Montréal (UdeM). She graduated at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) in 2010. After a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship at UdeM and a fellowship in reproductive infectious diseases at the University of British-Columbia, she joined the Public Health School of UdeM and the obstetrics and gynecology department of the CHU Sainte-Justine where she is co-director of the Women and children Infectious Disease Centre, a provincial referral centre for congenital infections. She is a member of the SOGC infectious diseases committee. Her main research interests are infectious diseases in obstetrics-gynecology and maternal-fetal medicine.</p>