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Establishing an Apheresis Medicine Program in a Resource‐Constrained Setting: A 5‐Year Experience From Lagos, Nigeria

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Establishing a comprehensive apheresis medicine program in a resource‐constrained setting presents significant structural, financial, and logistical challenges. Despite the growing clinical importance of apheresis services globally, published experience from sub‐Saharan Africa remains sparse.
Folasade Adelekan‐Popoola, Shakirat Gold‐Olufadi, Olufunto Olufela Kalejaiye, Abdullateef Ogala, Rasheed A. Balogun   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Are the Predictors of Acute Care Nurses' Stroke Knowledge?: Empirical Research Quantitative

Nursing Open
Aims To examine the predictability of categorical and quantitative study variables on acute stroke knowledge amongst study participants. Design Non‐experimental, descriptive correlational.
Catherine T. Leach, Linda P. Bolin, Melvin S. Swanson, Ashley E. Burch, Patricia C. Woltz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome and COVID-19: A series of 6 cases from Lombardy, Italy

eNeurologicalSci, 2021
Posterior reversible encephalopathy cases are increasingly being reported in patients affected by COVID-19, but the largest series so far only includes 4 patients.
Antonio Colombo, Filippo Martinelli Boneschi, Sandro Beretta, Nereo Bresolin, Maurizio Versino, Lorenzo Lorusso, Diego Spagnoli, Giulia Nastasi, Davide Vallauri, Stefania Rota, Maria Repaci, Massimo Ferrarini, Mattia Pozzato, Lucia Princiotta Cariddi, Payam Tabaee Damavandi, Federico Carimati, Paola Banfi, Alessandro Clemenzi, Margherita Marelli, Andrea Giorgianni, Gabriele Vinacci, Marco Mauri, Paola Melzi, Maria Di Stefano, Antonio Tetto, Margherita Canesi, Andrea Salmaggi   +26 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early Post-stroke Cognition: In-hospital Predictors and the Association With Functional Outcome

Frontiers in Neurology, 2020
Purpose: To characterize and predict early post-stroke cognitive impairment by describing cognitive changes in stroke patients 4–8 weeks post-infarct, determining the relationship between cognitive ability and functional status at this early time point ...
Richa Sharma, Dania Mallick, R. Llinas, E. Marsh   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Super‐Refractory Status Epilepticus (SRSE) in a Patient With Compound Heterozygous OPA1 Variants: Case Report and Literature Review

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Super‐Refractory Status Epilepticus (SRSE) is a rare, life‐threatening neurological emergency with unclear etiology in many cases. Mitochondrial dysfunction, often due to disease‐causing genetic variants, is increasingly recognized as a cause, with each gene producing distinct pathophysiological mechanisms.
Pouria Mohammadi, Lara Basovic, Christopher Michael McGraw   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors facilitating pre-hospital delays in stroke patients’ presentation to hospital by their caretakers in Uganda and suggested interventions

BMC Neurology
Background Benefit from stroke therapy for eligible stroke patients is time dependent, it is recommended to be timeously administered. The median time to hospital arrival after stroke in Africa has been documented to be around 31 h which is a stark ...
Salvatore Ssemmanda
doaj   +1 more source

Reducing delay to endovascular reperfusion after relocating a thrombolysis unit

Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
Background and aimsFunctional outcome following mechanical thrombectomy (MT) in patients with acute ischemic stroke and large vessel occlusion is time-dependent and worsens with increasing delay. Time to endovascular reperfusion is potentially modifiable
Nicolaj Grønbæk Laugesen, Klaus Hansen, Klaus Hansen, Joan Højgaard, Helle Klingenberg Iversen, Helle Klingenberg Iversen, Thomas Truelsen, Thomas Truelsen   +7 more
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Sex Differences of Acute Stroke Treatment and in Hospital Outcomes After Intravenous Thrombolysis in Patients With Ischemic Stroke

Frontiers in Neurology, 2020
Background: Many studies have suggested that the clinical features of male patients with ischemic stroke are different from those of female patients, but related data on Chinese patients are scarce. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the differences
B. Cai, Shengde Li, Hang Li, Zhenquan Liu, B. Peng   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Stroke is predicted by low visuospatial in relation to other intellectual abilities and coronary heart disease by low general intelligence

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Low intellectual ability is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease and stroke. Most studies have used a general intelligence score.
Leskinen, J.T., Jukka T Leskinen, Eriksson Johan G., Heinonen, K., Kati Heinonen, Osmond Clive, Räikkönen, Katri, Forsén Tom, Tom Forsén, Forsen, T., Kajantie, Eero, Eriksson, J.G., Johan G Eriksson, Henriksson Markus, Eero Kajantie, David J P Barker, Heinonen, Kati, Leskinen Jukka T., Barker, D.J., Henriksson, Markus, Räikkönen Katri, Kajantie, E., Heinonen Kati, Barker David J. P., Henriksson, M., Eriksson, Johan, Leskinen, Jukka, Raikkonen, K., Pesonen, A.K., Katri Räikkönen, Clive Osmond, Markus Henriksson, Forsen, Tom Johan, Kajantie Eero, Barker, David, Pesonen Anu-Katriina, Anu-Katriina Pesonen, Osmond, C., Pesonen, Anu-Katriina, Osmond, Clive   +39 more
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Stroke units: The implementation of a complex intervention [PDF]

, 2005
This article reports on selected findings from an action research study that looked at the lessons learnt from setting up a new in-patient stroke service in a London teaching hospital.
Meyer, J, Kilbride, C, Mary Flatley, Flatley, M, Julienne Meyer, Perry, L, Lin Perry, Cherry Kilbride   +7 more
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