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Table 1 Overview of the study assessment

From: Dorsolateral medullary infarction registry: a study protocol for a prospective, multicentric registry

Assessment

Domain

Baseline evaluation (T0)

3-month evaluation (T1)

6-month symptoms (T2)

12-month evaluation

(T3)

24-month evaluation

(T4)

Interview

• Demographic registry

General condition

• Past disease history

• Vascular risk factors (e.g., smoking, alcohol consumption)

• Family history

-

-

-

-

Clinical assessment

• Blood pressure, instant blood sugar

Health condition

• National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, Modified Rankin Scale

• Physical and neurological examination

-

Primary outcome measure

Corneal function

-

• OSDI

Tear secretion

-

• Schirmer test

-

• Non-invasive tear film breakup time

-

• Thickness of lipid layer of lacrimal film

-

• PBR

-

• Corneal sensation

Corneal sensation

-

• BSCVA

Vision

-

• ASOCT

Anterior segment

-

• Meibomian gland and

lipid layer

-

  1. OSDI: Ocular Surface Disease Index; BSCVA: best-spectacles corrected visual acuity; ASOCT: anterior segment optical coherence tomography; IVCM: in vivo confocal microscopy; PBR: partial blinking rate