Updated Imaging Findings in Congenital Zika Syndrome: A Disease Story That is Still Being Written

Top Magn Reson Imaging. 2019 Feb;28(1):1-14. doi: 10.1097/RMR.0000000000000193.

Abstract

In congenital Zika virus syndrome (CZS), the most frequent radiological findings are calcifications in the cortical-white matter junction and malformations of cortical development (pachygyria or polymicrogyria, which occur predominantly in the frontal lobes, or a simplified gyral pattern), ventriculomegaly, enlargement of the cisterna magna and the extra-axial subarachnoid space, corpus callosum abnormalities, and reduced brain volume. This syndrome can also result in a decrease in the brainstem and cerebellum volumes and delayed myelination. Infants with CZS may show venous thrombosis and lenticulostriate vasculopathies. Over a 3-year follow-up period, many infants with CZS showed hydrocephalus, reduction in brain calcifications, and greater reduction in brain thickness.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Brain / diagnostic imaging*
  • Brain / pathology*
  • Calcinosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Calcinosis / pathology
  • Calcinosis / virology
  • Diagnostic Imaging / methods*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hydrocephalus / diagnostic imaging
  • Hydrocephalus / pathology
  • Hydrocephalus / virology
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Microcephaly / diagnostic imaging
  • Microcephaly / pathology
  • Nervous System Malformations / diagnostic imaging
  • Nervous System Malformations / pathology
  • Nervous System Malformations / virology
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / diagnostic imaging*
  • Syndrome
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography, Prenatal / methods
  • Zika Virus
  • Zika Virus Infection / congenital*
  • Zika Virus Infection / diagnostic imaging*
  • Zika Virus Infection / pathology