• Georgios Tsivgoulis, Pavla Kadlecová, Adam Kobayashi, Anna Czlonkowska, Miroslav Brozman, Viktor Švigelj, Laszlo Csiba, Janika Kõrv, Vida Demarin, Aleksandras Vilionskis, Dalius Jatuzis, Aristeidis H Katsanos, Jobst Rudolf, Yakup Krespi, and Robert Mikulik.
• From the Second Department of Neurology, "Attikon" Hospital, University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece (G.T., A.H.K.); Department of Neurology, International Clinical Research Center, St. Anne's Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic (G.T., P.K., R.M.); Second Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland (A.K., A.C.); Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (A.C.); Neurology Department, University Hospital Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia (M.B.); Department of Vascular Neurology and Neurological Intensive Care, University Medical Center Ljubljana and Zdravstveni Nasveti, Ljubljana, Slovenia (V.Š.); Department of Neurology, Medical and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary (L.C.); Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia (J.K.); Department of Neurology, Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia (V.D.); Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Vilnius University and Republican Vilnius University Hospital, Vilnius, Lithuania (A.V.); Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Vilnius University and Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Clinics, Vilnius, Lithuania (D.J.); Department of Neurology, "Papageorgiou Hospital", Thessaloniki, Greece (J.R.); and Neurology Department and Stroke Center, Istanbul Science University and Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey (Y.K.). tsivgoulisgiorg@yahoo.gr.
• Stroke. 2015 Sep 1; 46 (9): 2681-4.

Background And PurposeA recent meta-analysis investigating the association between statins and early outcomes in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) indicated that prestroke statin treatment was associated with increased risk of 90-day mortality and symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage. We investigated the potential association of statin pretreatment with early outcomes in a large, international registry of AIS patients treated with IVT.MethodsWe analyzed prospectively collected data from the Safe Implementation of Treatments in Stroke-East registry (SITS-EAST) registry on consecutive AIS patients treated with IVT during an 8-year period. Early clinical recovery within 24 hours was defined as reduction in baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score of ≥10 points. Favorable functional outcome at 3 months was defined as modified Rankin Scale scores of 0 to 1. Symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage was diagnosed using National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, European-Australasian Acute Stroke Study-II and SITS definitions.ResultsA total of 1660 AIS patients treated with IVT fulfilled our inclusion criteria. Patients with statin pretreatment (23%) had higher baseline stroke severity compared with cases who had not received any statin at symptom onset. After adjusting for potential confounders, statin pretreatment was not associated with a higher likelihood of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage defined by any of the 3 definitions. Statin pretreatment was not related to 3-month all-cause mortality (odds ratio, 0.92; 95% confidence interval, 0.57-1.49; P=0.741) or 3-month favorable functional outcome (odds ratio, 0.81; 95% confidence interval, 0.52-1.27; P=0.364). Statin pretreatment was independently associated with a higher odds of early clinical recovery (odds ratio, 1.91; 95% confidence interval, 1.25-2.92; P=0.003).ConclusionsStatin pretreatment seems not to be associated with adverse outcomes in AIS patients treated with IVT. The effect of statin pretreatment on early functional outcomes in thrombolysed AIS patients deserves further investigation.© 2015 American Heart Association, Inc.

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