Sentences with phrase «including microcephaly»

Based on a newly published systematic review of current research, WHO has reaffirmed its position that Zika virus infection during pregnancy is a cause of congenital brain abnormalities, including microcephaly, and refined its position on the relationship between Zika virus infection and Guillain - Barré syndrome, stating that Zika virus infection is a trigger of Guillain - Barré syndrome.

It generally presents as a mild flu, but can cause severe birth defects, including microcephaly, if a woman becomes ill while pregnant.

Future studies of these cells are expected to shed light on developmental diseases such as autism and schizophrenia and malformations of brain development, including microcephaly, lissencephaly and neuronal migration disorders, they say, as well as age - related illnesses, such as Alzheimer's disease.

When a pregnant woman is infected, the virus can cause an increased risk of birth defects, including microcephaly.

Roughly four in every 1000 babies are infected with cytomegalovirus (CMV), which can cause seizures and intellectual disability, as well as Zika - like symptoms including microcephaly.

Most of these women are still pregnant and are being monitored to see if their fetuses develop abnormalities including microcephaly.

Zika virus infection during pregnancy has been linked to congenital brain abnormalities, including microcephaly, and Zika virus is a trigger of Guillain - Barré syndrome.

Now, it is being deployed to monitor the Zika as it spreads beyond Brazil, where reports last August of fetal deaths and newborns with brain disorders including microcephaly, a devastating condition that results in abnormally small brains and heads, began to trickle in.

The virus and resulting fever have been connected to several birth defects, including microcephaly, where babies develop smaller - than - normal heads and possible brain damage.

The agency said there have been recent variations in the number of cases reported in the region and, while the level of risk is unknown, Zika virus infection during pregnancy causes severe birth defects, including microcephaly and other severe brain abnormalities.

One reason Zika is troubling is because it is a cause of birth defects, including microcephaly — a condition where the baby's head is abnormally small — in babies whose mothers have had Zika.

When the virus infects a pregnant woman, it can cause a variety of birth defects including microcephaly, where the baby's head is abnormally small.

One reason Zika is troubling is that it is a cause of birth defects, including microcephaly — a condition where the baby's head is abnormally small — in babies whose mothers have had Zika.

The effects of Zika virus can be severe and include microcephaly where the skull has partially collapsed, decreased brain tissue, joints with limited range of motion, nervous system damage, and other health issues.

Not exact matches

Most people who get Zika have mild symptoms — and many don't even realize they have the virus — but the disease can cause severe neurological problems, including Guillain - Barre Syndrome in adults and microcephaly in fetuses.

There's still a lot that we don't know about Zika, including whether or not it's definitively the cause of infants being born with microcephaly or other neurological problems.

As we report in a collection of stories, much remains unclear, including the relationship between Zika infection and microcephaly and how best to combat the mosquitoes that spread the disease.

Among the 42 Zika - infected women in the study, 12 were carrying fetuses with severe abnormalities, including absence or withering of brain structures, tissue death, restricted growth and, in one case, microcephaly.

One in 150 babies in the U.S. is born with a congenital CMV infection, and of those, one in five suffers from complications, according to the CDC, which can include including hearing loss, vision loss, cerebral palsy, cognitive impairments and microcephaly.

It emerged as an infectious threat in the Western hemisphere in Brazil in 2015 where it made news for creating a spate of birth defects, including the devastating brain anomaly microcephaly.

Frieden, who is the second - longest serving CDC director in the agency's history, says his years at the helm were marked with successes that include affirming the link between Zika virus and microcephaly, helping beat back Ebola and supporting programs that promoted a drop in U.S. teen pregnancy numbers.

Some of the severe manifestations and complications associated with Zika disease include fetal loss, microcephaly and other birth defects, and the potential for delayed mental and physical effects among infected babies born in apparent good health.

«As we learn more about the consequences of Zika infection, including the recent revelation that babies of Zika - infected mothers who had normal head sizes at birth have been diagnosed with microcephaly months later, it is vital that we know this enemy and remain vigilant in protecting ourselves,» Diaz concludes.

In humans, Zika virus infection during pregnancy has been linked to a suite of birth defects including a condition known as microcephaly, which leaves babies with shrunken heads and brains (SN: 4/2/16, p. 26).

The approach enabled a wide range of studies of human brain development, including implicating a new class of neural stem cell recently discovered by the lab in the evolutionary expansion of the human brain and identifying how the mosquito - borne Zika virus may contribute to microcephaly in infants infected in utero.

Espinal detailed several studies underway, including a study in Brazil that will reveal information in April about children with microcephaly in the state of Pernambuco and cohort studies in Colombia are currently following 2,000 pregnant women infected with Zika virus.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge studied a variety of cell lines, including human neural stem cells, to investigate how Zika virus infection can lead to microcephaly.

Though much of the concern in the media regarding the toxic effects of Zika virus has focused on brain findings of microcephaly, the researchers noted that there are a variety of brain abnormalities that can be found in fetuses exposed to the virus, including gray and white matter volume loss, brainstem abnormalities, calcifications, and a condition called ventriculomegaly, where the ventricles, or fluid filled spaces in the brain, are enlarged.

Satuation of the environment with pesticides, including the drinking water, in this particular area of northeastern Brazil needs to be studied as a cause of microcephaly as well:

Based on that, we recommend using the term congenital Zika syndrome instead of microcephaly associated with Zika virus infection, which involves a spectrum of changes, including other neurological and fetal development manifestations.

In the recent case series, most infants with probable congenital ZIKV infection were noted to have craniofacial disproportion (95.8 %) and, to a lesser degree, biparietal depression (83.3 %), prominent occiput (75 %), and excess nuchal skin (47.9 %).38 Features supportive of the FBDS phenotype scattered through published reports include redundant scalp, 27,36,39,41 occipital prominence and / or overlapping sutures,14,20,22 - 24, 26,27,38 and typical craniofacial appearance with disproportion.13, 27,33,34,40 The FBDS phenotype is also prevalent in ZIKV - related media.47 Among infants with severe microcephaly, the pattern appears to be consistent, although the degree of cranial vault deformation varies.

Zecavati is a pediatric neurologist who treats children with microcephaly and can describe the neurologic signs and symptoms associated with microcephaly, including the various causes of microcephaly and how microcephaly affects a child's development and cognitive abilities.

Results: Here, we report six patients with microcephaly, facial dysmorphism, including exophthalmos, nevus flammeus of the glabella and joint contractures with a suspected BOS posture in five out of six patients.

Working in laboratory mice, they injected the most abundant of these small RNAs into the mouse brain to assess the impact of each on brain development, including whether they caused microcephaly.

Finally, there are other causes of microcephaly, brain abnormalities, and other birth defects, including genetic and infectious causes, about which the USZPR has limited information.36 - 38

The included birth defects were based primarily on case reports of outcomes occurring in association with Zika virus infection during pregnancy; there is more evidence for some of these birth defects than for others, and a causal link has not been established for all.5,10,12,21 - 27 Because much of the focus to date has been on microcephaly and brain abnormalities, data were summarized in 2 mutually exclusive categories: (1) brain abnormalities with or without microcephaly regardless of the presence of additional birth defects and (2) neural tube defects and other early brain malformations, eye abnormalities, and other consequences of central nervous system dysfunction among those without evident brain abnormalities or microcephaly.

Symptoms of deficiency can include delayed or reduced cognitive and physical skills, seizures, and congenital microcephaly 10.

The state has the second highest number of Zika infections in the country, behind New York, including at least 53 pregnant women, who are considered to be at greatest risk from the virus because it can cause microcephaly and other birth defects.

After the plaintiff's mother gave birth to her child, he was diagnosed with serious birth defects and disabilities, including cerebral palsy, developmental delays, microcephaly, and ventricular asymmetry, among other conditions.