Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016
Research
Post-Ebola Syndrome, Sierra Leone
Table 3
Musculoskeletal symptoms described by 31 patients with post-Ebola syndrome, Sierra Leone*
Area of pain | Patient sex |
Total | |
---|---|---|---|
M | F | ||
Joints | |||
Joint, unspecified | 5 | 9 | 14 |
Knee, unspecified | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Right knee joint | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Shoulder joint |
1 |
1 |
2 |
Body | |||
Generalized body | 4 | 4 | 8 |
Upper back | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Musculoskeletal, unspecified | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Left thigh | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Lower limb | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Right thigh | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Gluteal muscle | 1 | 0 | 1 |
*Values are no. patients. Some survivors reported >1 area of pain. The proportion of male and female survivors with musculoskeletal pain did not differ significantly (χ2, p = 0.7).