Congenital Toxoplasmosis: Findings in Fetal MRI

Toxoplasma gondii infection, when acquired as an acute infection during pregnancy, can have substantial adverse effects on fetuses. We present the case of a 19-year-old pregnant woman with no previous relevant medical history. The ultrasound in the third trimester showed brain and abdominal abnormal...

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Autores principales: Lazarte-Rantes, Claudia, Rodríguez-Anccasi, Raúl, Rivas-Campos, César, Silva, Elder
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Obstetrics/Gynecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8417349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34513467
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16894
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author Lazarte-Rantes, Claudia
Rodríguez-Anccasi, Raúl
Rivas-Campos, César
Silva, Elder
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Rodríguez-Anccasi, Raúl
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description Toxoplasma gondii infection, when acquired as an acute infection during pregnancy, can have substantial adverse effects on fetuses. We present the case of a 19-year-old pregnant woman with no previous relevant medical history. The ultrasound in the third trimester showed brain and abdominal abnormalities such as congenital hydrocephalus, volume loss of the brain parenchyma, and hepatosplenomegaly. The laboratory test showed positive IgM for Toxoplasma gondii. MRI was performed for better assessment and it shows the lesions in the central nervous system and other organs with more details.
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spelling pubmed-84173492021-09-10 Congenital Toxoplasmosis: Findings in Fetal MRI Lazarte-Rantes, Claudia Rodríguez-Anccasi, Raúl Rivas-Campos, César Silva, Elder Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology Toxoplasma gondii infection, when acquired as an acute infection during pregnancy, can have substantial adverse effects on fetuses. We present the case of a 19-year-old pregnant woman with no previous relevant medical history. The ultrasound in the third trimester showed brain and abdominal abnormalities such as congenital hydrocephalus, volume loss of the brain parenchyma, and hepatosplenomegaly. The laboratory test showed positive IgM for Toxoplasma gondii. MRI was performed for better assessment and it shows the lesions in the central nervous system and other organs with more details. Cureus 2021-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8417349/ /pubmed/34513467 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16894 Text en Copyright © 2021, Lazarte-Rantes et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Obstetrics/Gynecology
Lazarte-Rantes, Claudia
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Congenital Toxoplasmosis: Findings in Fetal MRI
title Congenital Toxoplasmosis: Findings in Fetal MRI
title_full Congenital Toxoplasmosis: Findings in Fetal MRI
title_fullStr Congenital Toxoplasmosis: Findings in Fetal MRI
title_full_unstemmed Congenital Toxoplasmosis: Findings in Fetal MRI
title_short Congenital Toxoplasmosis: Findings in Fetal MRI
title_sort congenital toxoplasmosis: findings in fetal mri
topic Obstetrics/Gynecology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8417349/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16894
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