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ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2020

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

Philip Babatunde Adebayo, Nadeem Kassam, Omar Aziz, Ahmed Jusabani, Samina Somji, Mugisha Clement Mazoko

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Article in The Pan African medical journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors.

Philip Babatunde AdebayoNeurology Section, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam.
Nadeem KassamDepartment of Internal Medicine, Aga Khan University Dar es Salaam.
Omar AzizNeurology Section, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam.
Ahmed JusabaniDepartment of Radiology, Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam.
Samina SomjiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Aga Khan University Dar es Salaam.
Mugisha Clement MazokoNeurosurgery Section, Department of Surgery, Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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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AdultCOVID-19Developing CountriesHumansMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisStrokeTanzaniaAfricacase seriesCOVID-19neurologyStrokeTanzania

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PMCPMC7880116

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