Case Report
Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection Diagnosis Case 24 Years Later While Following With The Cerebral Palsy Diagnosis
Yesim Güzey Aras* and Belma Dogan Güngen
Sakarya University Training and Researche Hospital, Turkey
- *Corresponding Author:
- Yesim Güzey Aras
Sakarya University Training and
Researche Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey
Tel: +902642955454
E-mail: yesimguzeyaras@hotmail.com
Received date: July 05, 2017; Accepted date: July 27, 2017; Published date: July 30, 2017
Citation: Aras YG, Güngen BD (2017) Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection Diagnosis Case 24 Years Later While Following with the Cerebral Palsy Diagnosis. J Neuroinfect Dis 8:257. doi:10.4172/2314-7326.1000257
Copyright: © 2017 Aras YG, et al. 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.
Abstract
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common cause of intrauterine infection, occurring in upto 2% of all live births. Most women are asymptomatic or experience nonspecific symptoms, which can lead to long-term sequelae in newborns including neurological impairment, hearing loss, and mental retardation. In this study, the reveal of congenital CMV diagnosed after the calcification in the brain upon the increasing number of attacks in brain during the treatment with the diagnosis of cerebral palsy, mental retardation and epilepsy is presented.