A prospective study on coma in neurology in the African setting: Case of Dakar, Senegal;Etude longitudinale prospective des comas en milieu neurologique Africain: Expérience de Dakar, Sénégal

Revue Medicale de Bruxelles

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 163-169

  Mapoure, N Y ^a   Sene Diouf F ^a   Ndiaye, M ^a   Mbatchou Ngahane, H B ^a,b   Doumbe, J ^a   Toure, K ^a,b   Mboup, B ^a   Thiam, A ^a   Diop, A G ^a   Ndiaye, M M ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dakar   (Senegal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Africa; Coma; Neurological intensive care unit; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENEGAL; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT DURATION; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENEGAL;

EID: 67651173194     PISSN: 00353639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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