HIV infection, hypercoagulability and ischaemic stroke in adults at the University Teaching Hospital in Zambia: a case control study

BACKGROUND: In Zambia, 14.2% of adults have HIV/AIDS. There has been a substantial and significant increase in patients hospitalized for ischaemic stroke with co-existing HIV infection. However, little is known about the mechanism of stroke in these HIV + ve patients let alone studied in our region....

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Autores principales: Zimba, Stanley, Ntanda, Patrice Mukomena, Lakhi, Shabir, Atadzhanov, Masharip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5437681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28521833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2455-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5437681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28521833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2455-0

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