Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress 2023 EHA Congress 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

At a glance: The ONWARDS insulin icodec trials

A round-up of the ONWARDS phase 3 clinical trials evaluating the novel weekly insulin icodec in people with diabetes.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Child's Nervous System
Published in: Child's Nervous System 1/2018

01-01-2018 | Focus Session

The congenital Zika virus infection: still a puzzle

Author: José Francisco M. Salomão

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 1/2018

Login to get access

Abstract

Background

As a new disease, some features of the congenital Zika virus infection are not yet fully understood. The current Brazilian outbreak brought up an unexpected increase in the number of microcephaly cases as this strain is essentially neurotropic and associated with devastating effects on the developing central nervous system.

Object

This focus session aims to discuss the several issues related to the epidemiology, diagnosis, clinical features, and treatment of the congenital Zika virus infection.
Literature
1.
2.
3.
4.
de Fatima Vasco Aragão MFVV, van der Linden V, Brainer-Lima AM, Coeli RR, Rocha MA, Silva OS, Carvalho MDCG, van der Linden A, Holanda AC, Valenca MM (2016) Clinical features and neuroimaging (CT and MRI) findings in presumed Zika virus related congenital infection and microcephaly: retrospective case series study. BMJ 353:i1901 https://​doi.​org/​10.​1136/​bmj.​i1901
5.
Steele RW (2016) Zika virus: an explosive pandemic and a new TORCH agent. Clin Pediatr (Phila) 55:698–700CrossRef
6.
7.
Jucá E, Pessoa A, Ribeiro E, Menezes R, Kerbage S, Lopes T, Cavalcanti LP (2017) Hydrocephalus associated to congenital zika syndrome: does shunting improve clinical features? Childs Nerv Syst
Metadata
Title
The congenital Zika virus infection: still a puzzle
Author
José Francisco M. Salomão
Publication date
01-01-2018
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Child's Nervous System / Issue 1/2018
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-017-3647-z

Other articles of this Issue 1/2018

Child's Nervous System 1/2018 Go to the issue

Review Paper

Congenital absence of the bilateral internal carotid artery: a review of the associated (ab)normalities from a newborn status to the eighth decade of life

Case Report

Intradural lumbosacral malignant extrarenal rhabdoid tumor: a case report

Letter to the Editor

DTI fusion with conventional MR imaging in intra-operative MRI suite for paediatric brainstem glioma biopsy

Focus Session

Hydrocephalus associated to congenital Zika syndrome: does shunting improve clinical features?

Case Report

Severe gyration and migration disorder in fetofetal transfusion syndrome: two case reports and a review of the literature on the neurological outcome of children with lesions on neuroimaging

Obituary

Prof. Satoshi Matsumoto eulogy