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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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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author Adebayo, Philip Babatunde
Kassam, Nadeem
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Somji, Samina
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description 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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spelling pubmed-78801162021-02-22 COVID-19 and stroke in sub-Saharan Africa: case series from Dar es Salaam Adebayo, Philip Babatunde Kassam, Nadeem Aziz, Omar Jusabani, Ahmed Somji, Samina Mazoko, Mugisha Clement Pan Afr Med J Case Series 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. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7880116/ /pubmed/33623624 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.24611 Text en © Philip Babatunde Adebayo et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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