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Echocardiography evaluation of a group of Brazilian babies with Zika-related birth defects found three times the expected rate of congenital heart disease (CHD), but only one infant had symptoms and most had minor septal defects that weren’t hemodynamically significant.

April 22nd, 2017

Cavalcanti DD, Alves LV, Furtado GJ, Santos CC, Feitosa FG, Ribeiro MC, et al. (2017) Echocardiographic findings in infants with presumed congenital Zika syndrome: Retrospective case series study. PLoS ONE 12(4): e0175065. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175065

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Echocardiography evaluation of a group of Brazilian babies with Zika-related birth defects found three times the expected rate of congenital heart disease (CHD), but only one infant had symptoms and most had minor septal defects that weren’t hemodynamically significant.

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