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
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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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author Aref, Hany
Zakaria, Magd
Shokri, Hossam
Roushdy, Tamer
El Basiouny, Ahmed
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description 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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spelling pubmed-87876092022-02-01 Changing the Landscape of Stroke in Egypt Aref, Hany Zakaria, Magd Shokri, Hossam Roushdy, Tamer El Basiouny, Ahmed El Nahas, Nevine Cerebrovasc Dis Extra Stroke Spectrum 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. S. Karger AG 2021-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8787609/ /pubmed/34864736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000521271 Text en Copyright © 2021 by The Author(s). Published by S. Karger AG, Basel https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-4.0 International License (CC BY-NC) (http://www.karger.com/Services/OpenAccessLicense), applicable to the online version of the article only. Usage and distribution for commercial purposes requires written permission.
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