Different pattern of menstrual in patients with COVID-19 infections

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of COVID-19 infection on menstrual pattern with or without use of anticoagulation therapy. METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted on 175 female patients, diagnosed with COVID-19 to assess the pattern of menstrual changes after infection using an online based questionnaire. RESULTS: There is highly significant results between number of menstruation days before and after COVID infection with P value (p<0.001) among the studied patients without use of anticoagulation. No statistically significant difference between without anti-coagulation and with anti-coagulation according to the effect of COVID-19 infection on menstrual flow, the number of menstrual flow days’ post COVID-19 infection, the number of pads per day post-COVID-19 infection, post-COVID-19 menstrual irregularity, if there is abnormal menstrual pattern after COVID-19 infection and action after abnormal menstrual pattern, with p-value (p>0.05 NS). CONCLUSION: COVID-19 infection has a direct effect of menstrual pattern regarding the duration of menstruation in infected females irrespective of the use of anticoagulants in the treatment plane. However, it hasn’t direct effect on regularity or amount of menstrual flow.