Erschienen in:
27.11.2017 | Focus Session
Imaging findings in congenital Zika virus infection syndrome: an update
verfasst von:
Andrea Silveira de Souza, Patrícia Soares de Oliveira-Szjenfeld, Adriana Suely de Oliveira Melo, Luis Alberto Moreira de Souza, Alba Gean Medeiros Batista, Fernanda Tovar-Moll
Erschienen in:
Child's Nervous System
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Ausgabe 1/2018
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Abstract
Background
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a neurotropic and neurotoxic RNA Flavivirus prompt to cause severe fetal brain dysmorphisms during pregnancy, a period of rapid and critical central nervous system development. A wide range of clinico-radiological findings of congenital ZIKV infections were reported in the literature, such as microcephaly, overlapping sutures, cortical migrational and corpus callosum abnormalities, intracranial calcifications, ventriculomegaly, brain stem and cerebellar malformations, spinal cord involvement, and joint contractures. ZIKV is also related to other severe neurological manifestations in grown-up individuals such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and encephalomyelitis.
Purpose
Our purpose is to review the radiological central nervous system abnormalities of congenital ZIKV infection syndrome on different imaging modalities.