Publications by authors named "Farrah Jasmine Mateen"
Introduction: Coronavirus is a virus with potential to target the nervous and respiratory systems. The aim of this work is to establish the prevalence of strokes in COVID19 positive patients in Guinea.
Methods: All patients with stroke confirmed by brain imaging and COVID-positive PCR were included in this study.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to characterize the reasons, extent, and impact of traditional medicine use among people with epilepsy (PWE) in the Republic of Guinea.
Methods: Guinea is a low-income country in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with limited healthcare resources. People with epilepsy and their caregivers were seen at a public referral hospital in Conakry, the capital city, where they completed semi-structured interviews with physicians regarding their beliefs about epilepsy, medical care, and engagement with traditional healers.
Background: Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury (TRALI) is an uncommon but potentially fatal reaction that is both temporally and mechanistically related to receiving allogenic blood components. Although many patients with neurological disease receive plasma exchange, TRALI in a patient receiving plasma exchange for a neurological disease has not been previously reported.
Case: A 79-year-old woman with an 18-month history of myasthenia gravis, was treated with a 4-day course of plasma exchange for symptomatic control of ptosis, diplopia, generalized fatigue, and chewing difficulties.