Cranial ultrasonographic findings in newborn with maternal zika virus infection during pregnancy in Buengkan Province, Thailand

Abstract

Objective : The objective of this study is to evaluated neonatal cranial ultrasound findings among the pregnant women with confirmed Zika virus infecion

Methods : We performed a retrospective study to described the neuroimaging findings in newborn with normal head circumference and maternal Zika virus infection. We performed transfontanelle cranial ultrasound using 2D ultrasound among the Eighty-three newborn during May, 2019-August, 2020 in Buengkan hospital.

Result : Neonatal cranial ultrasoud was performed in eighty-three newborn with maternal Zika virus infection during the study period . The result of transfontanelle cranial ultrasound are normal (76 case; 93%) and abnormal (6 case: 7%). The detectable intracranial abnormality is grade 1-2 chronic intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH). We did not detected other intracranial abnormality such as ventriculomegaly or intracranial calcification

Conclusion : Most of the neonate who were born to these maternal Zika virus infection and normal head circumferent at birth had no intracranial abnormality on cranial ultrasound findings. Seven percent had the grade 1-2 IVH that were still unknown relation to Zika virus infection.