The Lausanne stroke registry: analysis of 1,000 consecutive patients with first stroke

• Published in: Stroke (1970) Vol. 19; no. 9; pp. 1083 - 1092
• Main Authors: BOGOUSSLAVSKY, J, VAN MELLE, G, REGLI, F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hagerstown, MD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 01-09-1988
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biological and medical sciences; Cerebral Angiography; Cerebral Hemorrhage - diagnostic imaging; Cerebral Hemorrhage - etiology; Cerebral Infarction - classification; Cerebral Infarction - diagnostic imaging; Cerebral Infarction - etiology; Cerebrovascular Disorders - complications; Cerebrovascular Disorders - etiology; Humans; Ischemic Attack, Transient - complications; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Nervous System Diseases - etiology; Nervous System Diseases - physiopathology; Neurology; Registries; Risk Factors; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Vascular diseases and vascular malformations of the nervous system; Human; Cerebral infarction; Stroke; Nervous system diseases; Register; Europe; Cerebral hemorrhage; Topography; Risk factor; Epidemiology; Switzerland; Public health
• ISSN: 0039-2499; 1524-4628
• DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.19.9.1083

We present epidemiologic, etiologic, and clinical data for 1,000 consecutive patients with a first stroke (cerebral infarction or hemorrhage) admitted to the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois since 1982. The patients were evaluated using a standard protocol of tests (computed tomography, Doppler ultrasonography, and electrocardiography in all patients, as well as angiography and specific cardiac investigations in selected patients). Each case was coded prospectively into a computerized registry. We believe that the Lausanne Stroke Registry is the first registry with complete computed tomography and Doppler ultrasonography data on all patients, which allows correlation between clinical findings, presumed etiology, and stroke location. Although the Lausanne Stroke Registry is not population-based, it gives a good estimate of the stroke-related problems in patients admitted to a primary-care center since our hospital is the sole acute-care facility for stroke in the Lausanne area.