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COVID-19 and stroke in sub-Saharan Africa: case series from Dar es Salaam
Philip Babatunde Adebayo1,2, Nadeem Kassam2, Omar Aziz1
1Neurology Section, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam.
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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