High-tech imaging is revealing a wide variety of brain defects in newborns whose mothers were infected with the Zika virus. The virus has been most closely linked to a birth defect called microcephaly - an abnormally small head and an underdeveloped brain, the authors of a new study said. Along with microcephaly, other brain abnormalities can also occur in fetuses exposed to Zika.
These include grey and white matter volume loss, brain stem abnormalities, calcifications, and a condition called ventriculomegaly, where the ventricles (fluid-filled spaces in the brain) are enlarged. And other anomalies -- eye defects, hearing problems, and stunted growth -- can also arise, according to the special report published in the journal Radiology . "From an imaging standpoint, the abnormalities in the brain are very severe when compared to other congenital infections," report co-author and doctor…
