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Special child, special mother: the sense of strength in mothers of children with congenital zika virus syndrome

Abstract Objectives: To understand the meanings of having a child with the Congenital Zika virus Syndrome in the experience of women and, from this, what they would say to others who find themselves in the same situation. Method: Qualitative and interpretive study, based on the Model of Resilience, Str...

Experiências de pais de crianças nascidas com microcefalia, no contexto da epidemia de Zika, a partir da comunicação do diagnóstico

Resumo: Este artigo tem como objetivo compreender como os pais de crianças com microcefalia receberam a comunicação do diagnóstico. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo, realizado no Centro de Referência Estadual em Neurodesenvolvimento, Assistência e Reabilitação de Crianças (NINAR), em São Luís...

Microcefalia
Microcephaly

Medicina (B.Aires); 78 (supl.2), 2018
La microcefalia se define como un perímetro cefálico de más de dos desviaciones estándar por debajo de la media para edad y sexo. Es un importante signo neurológico y predictor de discapacidad futura. Una de las dificultades de su diagnóstico radica en los rangos de referencia del perímetro cefál...

Relationship between microcephaly and Zika virus during pregnancy: a review

SUMMARY AIM: the present study analysed the association between Zika-virus and microcephaly during the gestational period of women in Brazil. Methodology: Systematic reviews of intervention research, current publications of clinical investigations were used systematic search strategies in three electro...

Vivências de mães que tiveram filhos com microcefalia

Objetivo compreender as vivências de mães que tiveram filhos com microcefalia. Método estudo qualitativo realizado com oito mulheres, maiores de 18 anos. Foi aplicada a técnica da entrevista semiestruturada em abril de 2017. Para a análise dos dados, utilizou-se a técnica de análise de conteúd...

Zika Virus Infection in Pregnant Women and Microcephaly

Abstract From the discovery of the Zika virus (ZIKV) in 1947 in Uganda (Africa), until its arrival in South America, it was not known that it would affect human reproductive life so severely. Today, damagetothe central nervous system is known to be multiple, and microcephaly is considered the tip of the ...

Hipoplasia pontocerebelosa secundaria a deleción en el gen CASK: Caso clínico

Rev. chil. pediatr; 88 (4), 2017
Introducción: La hipoplasia pontocerebelosa (HPC) es la reducción del tamaño del cerebelo y la protuberancia secundaria a una alteración en su desarrollo, pudiendo ser provocado por enfermedades neurodegenerativas de causa genética, de las que se conocen 10 subtipos (PCH 1-10), malformaciones cortic...

Two novel heterozygous missense variations within the GLI2 gene in two unrelated argentine patients
Two novel heterozygous missense variations within the GLI2 gene in two unrelated Argentine patients

Medicina (B.Aires); 76 (4), 2016
Several heterozygous GLI2 gene mutations have been reported in patients with isolated GH deficiency (IGHD) or multiple pituitary hormone deficiency (MPHD) with or without other malformations. The primary aim of this study was to analyze the presence of GLI2 gene alterations in a cohort of patients with I...

Microcephaly and Zika virus: a clinical and epidemiological analysis of the current outbreak in Brazil

J. pediatr. (Rio J.); 92 (3), 2016
Abstract Objective: This study aimed to critically review the literature available regarding the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil and its possible association with microcephaly cases. Sources: Experts from Instituto do Cérebro do Rio Grande do Sul performed a critical (nonsystematic) literature review re...