RARE DISEASE CASE REPORT- MICROCEPHALY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48047/Keywords:
Zika virus,Brain development,Microcephaly,Magnetic resonance imaging(MRI),Congenital microcephaly Occipitofrontal circumferenceAbstract
Microcephaly is a rare disorder[01]
. We report on 8-year old girl who was being suffering with the Microcephaly was
admitted in the hospital with chief complaints and the observed symptoms to admit in the hospital are “Seizures”
and “Squint” and not even having a stable vision on any of the particular object. Microcephaly can be caused due to
the neurodevelopmental problems which is phenotype in the patients, often genetic causes. Microcephaly can also be
defined as lower occipitofrontal than the third percentile or more than two standard deviations below the mean for
sex, age and ethnicity. Patients who were being suffering with this disease can have the various neurological
manifestations, psychomotor problems, delayed developments, and epilepsy which are frequently shown by the
affected patients and also, accompanied by the facial dysmorphism and also affects the major organs present in the
body.
