Department of Neurology, School of Medicine College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Po Box 6396, Liberia Street, Lideta sub-city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
BMC Res Notes. 2021 Jan 6;14(1):9. doi: 10.1186/s13104-020-05425-3.
Pain is one of the most ignored clinical symptoms in resource limited country such as Ethiopia. Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is one of the most painful medical illnesses known to human. Very little was reported about TN from the sub Saharan Africa (SSA), especially from Ethiopia. We aimed to study the demographic, clinical characteristics, and risk factors of TN in sixty-one patients at two public and two private health facilities in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. These data will be vital to researchers and clinicians interested in knowing the pattern of TN in SSA in order to compare and contrast with similar data from the west.
The data set contains characteristics of TN patients. All the variables in the data set were coded by self-explanatory codes. The data set contains: demographic data, which contains age ranges and duration of illness; clinical characteristics data contains clinical characteristics, and risk factors includes such as structural brain abnormalities, family history, and dental extraction. Nearly 90% of the patients had Classical TN. The right side and mandibular branch of trigeminal nerve was commonly involved. Close to 40% reported previous tooth extraction history. Majority of the patients reported satisfactory pain control with carbamazepine.
疼痛是资源有限国家（如埃塞俄比亚）中最被忽视的临床症状之一。三叉神经痛（TN）是已知的人类最痛苦的医学疾病之一。来自撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA），特别是来自埃塞俄比亚的 TN 报道很少。我们旨在研究在埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴的两家公立和两家私立医疗机构的 61 名患者的人口统计学，临床特征和 TN 的危险因素。这些数据对于有兴趣了解 SSA 中 TN 模式的研究人员和临床医生来说至关重要，以便与来自西方的类似数据进行比较和对比。
该数据集包含 TN 患者的特征。数据集中的所有变量均由自解释代码进行编码。该数据集包含：人口统计学数据，其中包含年龄范围和疾病持续时间；临床特征数据包含临床特征，危险因素包括结构性脑异常，家族史和拔牙。近 90％的患者患有经典 TN。三叉神经的右侧和下颌分支通常受累。接近 40％的患者报告有先前的拔牙史。大多数患者报告卡马西平治疗疼痛控制满意。
