Zika in Focus (eBook)

Maria de Fátima Viana Vasco Aragão is a Professor of Radiology at the Maurício de Nassau University and scientific director of the Multimagem Diagnostic Centre in Recife, Brazil. She received her medical degree from the Federal University of Pernambuco in 1987 and completed her residency in radiology at Ribeirão Preto Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brazil. She completed fellowships in CT, MRI and neuroradiology at Med Imagem Beneficencia Portuguesa, São Paulo, Brazil, and later at Mount Sinai Hospital Center in New York, USA. In 2010 she received her PhD in Neuroscience from the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife. She is a founding member of the Brazilian Society of Neuroradiology, full member of the Brazilian College of Radiology and a member of the American Society of Neuroradiology, the European Society of Radiology and the Radiological Society of North America. She served as president of the Pernambuco Radiology Society from 2014 to 2016, being recently re-elected for 2016 to 2018.

Historical and epidemiological background.- Clinical and laboratory findings.- Radiological characteristics of congenital Zika syndrome.- Less frequent radiological findings.- Radiological differential diagnosis.- Histopathological findings.- Follow-up and rehabilitation.