Antenatal imaging and clinical outcome in congenital CMV infection: a field-wide systematic review and meta-analysis

Congenital Cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection is the most common intrauterine infection, with a worldwide prevalence of 0.2% to 2.5%.1 Diagnosis of congenital CMV infection can be performed either prenatally or postnatally. During pregnancy clinical suspicion of acute CMV infection is rarely ever raised since symptomatic disease in adults is rare. Thus, prenatal diagnosis is made either because of maternal primary CMV infection detection in areas where prenatal serologic testing is performed or due to fetal abnormalities compatible with fetal cytomegalovirus infection found on ultrasound.

Source: Journal of Infection - February 22, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Aikaterini Kyriakopoulou, Stylianos Serghiou, Dimitra Dimopoulou, Ioli Arista, Theodora Psaltopoulou, Argyrios Dinopoulos, Vassiliki Papaevangelou Source Type: research