Abstract

MORILLA GUZMAN, Andrés Armando  and  ALVAREZ FUMERO, Roberto. Recommendations for the care of neonates born from mothers diagnosed with Zika virus in Cuba. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2017, vol.89, n.4, pp.1-14. ISSN 0034-7531.

These recommendations makes reference to the definition of the congenital Zika virus syndrome, its etiology, classification and clinical manifestations including eye and fundus oculi alterations reported up to now, the anthropometric patterns to be used for the evaluation of microcephaly, the description of the technique for measurement of cephalic circumference, the right time to indicate the supplementary studies and their main results. Reference is also made to the regular steps to be followed for the screening of the congenital Zika virus syndrome at the time of birth and the performance to be adopted from birth to discharge from hospital. These recommendations also include the behaviors to be adopted after the discharge from hospital and the recommendations for parents.

Keywords : neonates; congenital syndrome; Zika virus.

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