Changing the Landscape of Stroke in Egypt

Egypt, a low-middle-income country, is the most populated nation in the Middle East with a high overall crude prevalence rate of stroke (963/100,000 inhabitants), accounting for 6.4% of all deaths. In this article, we discuss how, through a corrective plan, we could change the landscape of stroke se...

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Autores principales: Aref, Hany, Zakaria, Magd, Shokri, Hossam, Roushdy, Tamer, El Basiouny, Ahmed, El Nahas, Nevine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2021
Materias:
Stroke Spectrum
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8787609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34864736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000521271
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Sumario:Egypt, a low-middle-income country, is the most populated nation in the Middle East with a high overall crude prevalence rate of stroke (963/100,000 inhabitants), accounting for 6.4% of all deaths. In this article, we discuss how, through a corrective plan, we could change the landscape of stroke services in Egypt, in a relatively short time, raising thrombolysis rate from <1% to 12.3%, with shortening of door-to-needle time. We could build a database that now exceeds 5,000 patients, our centers received international accreditation and several awards, and we developed tele-stroke service.

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