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

doi:10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.24611

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

Internal Medicine, East Africa

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	100
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Pan African Medical Journal
Volume	35
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.24611
Publication status	Published - 2020

Keywords

Africa
COVID-19
Case series
Neurology
Stroke
Tanzania

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