Thirty-day stroke mortality and associated clinical and laboratory factors among adult stroke patients admitted at Mulago Hospital (Uganda);mortalité à trente jours correlée aux aspects cliniques et biologiques chez des patients adultes admis pour un accident vasculaire cérébral à l’hôpital de Mulago (Ouganda)

African Journal of Neurological Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kwarisiima, Levi ^a   Mukisa, Robert ^a   Nakibuuka, Jane ^a   Matovu, Steven ^a   Katabira, Elly ^b  

^a MULAGO NATIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL   (Uganda)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Mortality; Stroke; Uganda

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EMERGENCY CARE; FATALITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REHABILITATION CARE; STROKE PATIENT; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; UGANDA;

EID: 84907053811     PISSN: 10158618     EISSN: 19922647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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