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

Authors

Philip Adebayo, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Nadeem Kassam, Aga Khan University
Omar Aziz, Aga Khan University
Ahmed Jusabani, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Samina Somji, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Mugisha Clement, Aga Khan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

Internal Medicine (East Africa); Imaging and Diagnostic Radiology (East Africa); General Surgery (East Africa)

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.

Publication (Name of Journal)

The Pan African Medical Journal

Recommended Citation

Adebayo, P., Kassam, N., Aziz, O., Jusabani, A., Somji, S., Clement, M. (2020). COVID-19 and stroke in sub-Saharan Africa: case series from Dar es Salaam. The Pan African Medical Journal, 35(100).
Available at: https://ecommons.aku.edu/eastafrica_fhs_mc_intern_med/114

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