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Echocardiographic findings in infants with presumed congenital Zika syndrome: Retrospective case series study.

Danielle Di CavalcantiJoão Guilherme Bezerra AlvesGeraldo J FurtadoCleusa C SantosFabiana G FeitosaMaria C RibeiroPaulo MengeIzabelle M LiraJoao G Alves
Published in: PloS one (2017)
Preliminarily this study suggests that congenital Zika syndrome may be associated with an increase prevalence of congenital heart disease. However the types of defects noted were septal defects, a proportion of which would not be hemodynamically significant.
Keyphrases
  • congenital heart disease
  • zika virus
  • risk factors
  • case report
  • aedes aegypti
  • mitral valve
  • left atrial