COVID-19 and stroke in sub-Saharan Africa: case series from Dar es Salaam

Low and middle-income countries including those in sub-Saharan (SSA) Africa are experiencing a steady increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. To the best of our knowledge, reports of COVID-19 related strokes are scarce in SSA. The peculiar situation of stroke care in SSA makes COVID-19 associated...

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Autores principales: Adebayo, Philip Babatunde, Kassam, Nadeem, Aziz, Omar, Jusabani, Ahmed, Somji, Samina, Mazoko, Mugisha Clement
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7880116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33623624
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.24611
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Sumario:Low and middle-income countries including those in sub-Saharan (SSA) Africa are experiencing a steady increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. To the best of our knowledge, reports of COVID-19 related strokes are scarce in SSA. The peculiar situation of stroke care in SSA makes COVID-19 associated stroke a bothersome entity as it adds other dynamics that tilt the prognostic balance. We present a case series of COVID -19 related stroke in 3 patients from Tanzania. We emphasized protected code stroke protocol.

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