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Postgraduate Medical Journal 1999;75:667-671; doi:10.1136/pgmj.75.889.667
Copyright © 1999 The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.
Postgrad Med J 1999;75:667-671 ( November )

Circadian fluctuations in the efficacy of thrombolysis with streptokinase

E Goldhammer, L Kharash, E G Abinader

Department of Cardiology, Bnei-Zion Medical Center and School of Medicine, Technion, 47 Golomb Street, Haifa 31048, Israel

Accepted 3 June 1999

This study was designed to investigate possible diurnal fluctuations in the efficacy of thrombolysis with streptokinase and whether they follow the circadian periodicity which has already been well documented for the time of onset of acute myocardial infarction, transient myocardial ischaemia, sudden cardiac death, thrombotic stroke, and for the efficacy of thrombolysis with tissue-type plasminogen and urokinase. A total of 156 consecutive patients treated with streptokinase were studied retrospectively; success or failure of thrombolysis was determined according to accepted clinical and angiographic criteria. A definite time peak for successful thrombolysis could be detected at the late afternoon and early evening hours; between 16.00 and 20.00 h, 30.2% of all successful thrombolysis cases were observed compared with 7.0% between 20.00 and 24.00 (p<0.05) or 10.5% between 00.00 and 04.00 (p<0.05). Between 16.00 and 20.00 h, 75.8% of treated patients had successful thrombolysis compared to 15.2% of failed treatments and 9% equivocal results (p<0.001). Multiple regression analysis showed that the independent factor with the major impact on successful reperfusion was the actual time of thrombolysis (p=0.037), followed by the time delay from pain onset to streptokinase administration (p=0.020), while age and gender had much lesser impact (p=0.328 and 0.215, respectively) and the individual risk factors even less. These findings may have several clinical implications; dose adjustment for the time of day may be required, with higher doses during morning hours, or preference for primary coronary angioplasty in order to avoid the increase in bleeding complications related to higher doses of thrombolytic agents.


Keywords: circadian periodicity; thrombolysis; streptokinase

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