Confirms first case of microcephaly and fetal death in Venezuela
Thursday, March 3, 2016 aime Torres, infectious disease specialist at the Institute of Tropical Medicine of the Central University of Venezuela confirmed the first case of microcephaly and death of a fetus by zika in the country.
The case, according to a specialist was in Maturin, Monagas state. The child's mother is a 24 - year-old whose pregnancy was interrupted spontaneously at 17 weeks of gestation.
In the 13th week of pregnancy the woman had skin rash and malaise, two characteristic symptoms of zika. However, tests were performed and no alterations in amniotic fluid, placenta or fetus appreciated.
Subsequently, a sonogram revealed "a severe reduction in the amount of amniotic fluid and calcified intracerebral structures, both complications that have been associated with the presence of zika" so that ruled out other diseases. Three days after this, the doctors showed fetal death in utero diagnosis of microcephaly with.
The baby's parents authorized that samples of the umbilical cord, placenta and brain, which were referred from other institutes to IVIC and so far has demonstrated "the presence in those tissues Zika virus's genetic material" be explored.
The zika was associated with increased microcephaly in Brazil where it has 641 confirmed cases and 3,935 research.
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Thursday, March 3, 2016 aime Torres, infectious disease specialist at the Institute of Tropical Medicine of the Central University of Venezuela confirmed the first case of microcephaly and death of a fetus by zika in the country.
The case, according to a specialist was in Maturin, Monagas state. The child's mother is a 24 - year-old whose pregnancy was interrupted spontaneously at 17 weeks of gestation.
In the 13th week of pregnancy the woman had skin rash and malaise, two characteristic symptoms of zika. However, tests were performed and no alterations in amniotic fluid, placenta or fetus appreciated.
Subsequently, a sonogram revealed "a severe reduction in the amount of amniotic fluid and calcified intracerebral structures, both complications that have been associated with the presence of zika" so that ruled out other diseases. Three days after this, the doctors showed fetal death in utero diagnosis of microcephaly with.
The baby's parents authorized that samples of the umbilical cord, placenta and brain, which were referred from other institutes to IVIC and so far has demonstrated "the presence in those tissues Zika virus's genetic material" be explored.
The zika was associated with increased microcephaly in Brazil where it has 641 confirmed cases and 3,935 research.
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